Asking questions and making negotiations is very different. CATIC is in negotiation with prospective buyers, Its not a toothpaste or a soap that one would buy readily. National defence is most critical and any airforce would not like to enter into a contract unless it is 150% sure that platform can deliver. They are test flying it, and will evaluate it accordingly to their constraints. So stop coming up with street kid logics of "main na manu"
its not about 10 Billon. Hex PAF's Block 50 program was more than 5 Billion (5.3 I guess) but that has proceeded smoothly as PAF knew what it wanted. To me it is rather ununderstandable that why IAF took it overly long to even shortlist the finalists leaving aside selection. For me, the purpose of MMRCA was somewhat vague throughout. If an affordable true MR was the purpose of this, then Grippen was the most economical, equally verstile and offered the most industrial interest followed by falcon. But keeping that aside, Saudis started Typhoon induction program in 2007 roughly worth 9 Billion USD and the have completed it in 2011 with IAF still evaluating.Apart from above discussion, constraints do turn up, but in the absence of a firm objective i.e. what do one wants, such delays a imminent
