With all due respects the whole MMRCA acquisition is a disaster. I mean who are you looking to fight with. You have a long tradition odf useing the Russian equipment. You have not succeeded in your local venture but keep trying.Meanwhile the russians will keep supplying you hardware which is at par with what you will be getting from the EU at grossly over inflated price. You can always approach the Israelis and the EU for subsystems which you can buy rights to build in house. If the F20 comes in at the same time that PAkfa comes in you will always maintain parity with the chinese, although technically you have already lost the battle before it has begun. As to the Pakistanis , we are not worth worrying about. As a country we just are not big enough or have depth enough to worry you. So why these acquisitions worth billions when the same money invested in your country would yield dividends beyond the advantage gained by having 126 fighters which will be white elephants never used in war during their lives. This is just my view, I have no prejudice either way.
Araz
You got few things right and few things wrong
1.who are you looking to fight with.
Nobody, its just a deterrent so that when push comes to shove we dont sit on our arse and see it happening.
2. You said " You have not succeeded in your local venture but keep trying"
Even if its true(so many that I can name which is a success) is it a bad thing to try.. Apollo 13 landed on the Moon great story but do you know it was the third attempt.
3. You said " the russians will keep supplying you hardware which is at par with what you will be getting from the EU at grossly over inflated price"
Not necessary its in the same par, when you have many vendor you have many choices.
4. You said " if the F20 comes in at the same time that PAkfa comes in you will always maintain parity with the chinese"
Even if the PakFA come early its not like we are gonna attack, China is huge country. Her enemy is just not India so her defense budget is much more than wht we have
4. You said" As to the Pakistanis , we are not worth worrying about. As a country we just are not big enough or have depth enough to worry you"
True, but our defense acquisitions is not just done keeping Pak in mind.
5. You said" So why these acquisitions worth billions when the same money invested in your country would yield dividends beyond the advantage gained by having 126 fighters which will be white elephants never used in war during their lives"
A country just doesnt buy mil. hardware to go to war, they buy so that it act as a deterrent
