What the hell ? Deal Signed ? If true iaf will be most powerful In Asia . Good way to add fleet strength for the air force . But I don't think Rafale will be replaced .It must the stop gab fighters .
So if true we can be sure of
-No Additional MKI but upgrading then to Super Sukoi standards May be at least last 2 batch will be produced as Super Sukois .
- After these level of involvement I don't think we will back off from MMRCA but I don't we will stop this newly revealed progress. So we might had chosen our New Nuclear task force. May be plan is to keep this new Su35S contract can be replacement for MMRCA if no progress made with France .
- Last but not least . Now China will be provided with present 35S standards or even lesser variant. But what India can get in return is a big fat sir superiority 5th -1 kind of a Fighter . Same like MKI S
So India can replace MiG 27 and mig 21 with SU35S . Every good move indeed was opening a production line for this 5th gen fighters . So ToT will be fully observables by Indians when FGFA arrives . One thing is for sure this gov't won't esitate to go through this project very carefully as looks like gov't not only working on current fleet crisis but way beyond that .
Finger crossed looking forward for this to be real
Makes sense. India has taken way too long to conclude Rafale negotiations. Even if they conclude the deal now.. by the time the planes are inducted, Rafale would have lost it's charm. After-all you don't want to be inducting 4.5 gen fighter aircraft when 5th gen stealth aircraft is going to be the normal feature in every major air force in the world.
Well said. This must be a great move
Russians have been talking a lot of nonsense lately....
Hold on Bro this might be true after all. And do make sense . Su35S plus PakFa this is the fighter we will get. And he stressed many times by calling it's 5th generation fighters. And it's same like SU30 MKI . But with 5th generation features.
May be just may be Super Sukoi upgrade well might be similar to Su35S . Am just speculating . For 80 mil this project worth every penny . Hope we are going for AESA radar exactly the one for Super Sukoi upgrade.
