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If a light weight fighter like jf-17 can carry a cruise missile of 1500 kg then why not a medium weight aircraft can carry 2500 kg of cruise missile . after looking at the fact that the two qualified contenders for MRCA are EF-2000 and Rafale and both are much heavier than jf-17 and have much heavy payloads capacity when compared with jf-17 , not only that but also both Rafale and Ef-2000 are powered by twin and more powerful engines when compared to single engine of jf-17 .
Weight is not the issue may be Russia don't want india to give the codes of Brahmos to europeans because for missile to be carried by an aircraft integration is needed and for that integration there are certain codes by the manufacturers. No doubt that india is a partner to that project but certain things are necessary to be hidden , like Russia didn't allowed IAF to use MKI radars during exercise with USAF though a bit different case but for the sake of understanding
the capacity of hard point to bear weight is limited.
maybe hard points of EFT of rafale cant carry 2000 plus kg weight. capacity of different hard points is different.