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Bet even westerners itself skeptic about f35,asper them 4++ gem su35 & EF typhoon can outmatch f35 any day,& it not a good choice to go for medium category slugish low observable expensive fighter( for some its just a strike aircraft not a fighter) like f35.Actually I doubt this report, can anyone confirm the report. The source seems to me from some Russian site.may be some blog rushincash.com.
But F-35 is also not barred, and could be considered in future who knows.
Its right that India wants FGFA, because the country in the east is quickly building its 4th Gen replacing its old absolute fighter planes, but also have two 5th Gen in development. IAF have always tries to compensate the quantitative disadvantage with the quality edge, but its not there anymore. Looking at the Russian economy, Chinese money which could be pumped that can attracts best of their Scientists & Engineers, Ukraine crisis and the last but not the least Russia is not the Soviet anymore, and I have doubts on T-50 program.
I am in favour of giving ADA 2 billion to start a parallel program on AMCA for R&D ASAP.
There are various experts that doubt that ADA could not do this, but still I believe it is doable -- keeping aside the engine developement aka don't link AMCA with Kaveri-2.
1. The technology developed with AMCA could reflect in Tejas MK-2.
2. Many countries could be interested to join AMCA --- Israel, Brazil, Germany, Taiwan
There was one thread about the Pakistani Wish list of weapons from Russia, and a long thread on Su-35 purchase for PAF, one question for Su-35 deal for PAF -- What makes the Pakistani thinks that it is not sanction prone ?
Its a time consuming process to design & perfecting a decent gen5 fighter from scratch even for a professional & experienced labs no matter how much money you pump to that project. So based on the track record ada will definitely will take minimum a decade or more to develop a amca,remember we don't have any powerhouse for amca yet not even a finalised the foreign parten for a jet engine development. Let's hope israel will partner with us amca project, even its a tough task to Induct amca in a decade.
So its better to stick with Russians for our stealth heavy fighter & amca project at the same time. Lastly uncle Sam will try to block Israeli participation in amca,actually there was a strong pressure from us against Israeli " kfir " fighter & which eventually cancelled by Israelis.so there is a tough time ahead for ada on amca design.