Defence ministry ignores Russia’s requests to discuss FGFA fighter project

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Robyn lawley

no shit... geez I thought that's you

 

[Swaha]

Luca1 should forget about India and start focusing more on Chinese section.

 

[Tshering22]

India should forget about FGFA and spend money developing its own engineer to build its own AMCA.

You're kidding right? We've set aside $30 billion to be put into the whole ecosystem of FGFA, including purchase, maintenance, training and management of the assets. That is a huge investment.

AMCA will take some time even if PM Modi directly jumps on HAL director's head 24x7.

Russia has a far more advanced military aerospace industrial complex than we have and therefore it would not be easy to complete any aircraft on time without their knowledge.

I think FGFA joint development has been shelved due to Russia's insistence on Indian paying half the money for around 15% of the work-share and reluctance to provide sensitive information to India.
Russia made the same promise of joint export with Brahmos but constantly undermines Brahmos export by offering Yakhont in a separate package to the interested country.
Same thing would have happened with FGFA joint export.


IMO India will most likely MKI-ize PAKFA to suit its needs rather than develop a different version of it.

I don't think you should take Shukla so seriously man.

BrahMos's main reason for not being able to be exported is not Russian insistence but just that the domestic orders are so massive that it is taking BrahMos forever to finish them. This is a very sensitive tech and therefore we cannot open lines and lines of factories to just make them and sell them to foreign countries like cupcakes.