F-16 vs Gripen: Too Close to Call?, Decision after Aero India 2017

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I hope India go for F-16s instead of Gripen NG because latter one required low maintenance staff of only 6, can operate from roads and make shift runways with good STOL capability (allowing better TAT and sortie rate), have swash plate AESA radar (more angle coverage which F-16 don't have) and have nearly everything which F-16 has.

The first requirement for any competitor here is to build the aircrafts in India , and the aircrafts so built should be with Indian Raw Materials . And the % of Indian Raw materials to imported ones should be atleast comparable to MKI manufacturing.

And in MKI manufacturing , apart from Weapons the only thing imported is Titanium Forgeings for engine core.

Lets see who fulfills it, then we can talk about " vs " .