It's a darn good thing there are people like Waz to keep things straight, IMHoO.
Low Quality products, yeah well, one of two countries with nuclear aircraft carriers, one of four with 100% autonomous fighters ( and even then Russia puts French systems on its jets to sell them abroad ), nuclear SSNs and SSBNs, full spectrum mili satellites, the only compact supersonic nuclear missile in service, Ariane and ... there's a reason why the Russians wanted the Mistral : they couldn't build anything similar by themselves!
At some point, if you want to be taken seriously, you'd have to give up on the fanboy stuff, people!
Sure, that's why we bomb A-stan, Libya and Iraq ( cross-decking with USN ) with this :
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while China is doing pool laps safely behind the Philippines with a refurbished Soviet junk whose
ski jump would not be big enough for the olympic discipline / event by the same name!
Another person that ridiculed his country with a dismally under qualified military comment.
If French stuff is so bad, why is Pakistan defending its maritime airspace with Thales radars and a
Mistral anti-air system user? Pray tell?
Even you Syedali? Judging by past posts that I read with your name on them, I would have thought
you able to understand how releasing such potent equipment to a nation that is involved in attacking
a nation on our continent for which these ships would have been a perfect tool would be ludicrous.
Besides, apart from the recent Klimov engines and helos deals, maybe you should remember how
much Moscow provides to India?
And that France was the first non-muslim nation to recognize Pakistan and that apart from military deals,
it supports civilian nuclear energy for your country?
Just sayin' Tay