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All I can say is, they’ve shown their true colours of what they think of the rest of the world and they’re certainly not my favourite people at the moment. Feel sorry for the genuine Yanks out there.

If they go for a US aircraft, silly if they do IMO, then the politicians would’ve chosen it for political reasons and not technical, performance etc reasons. If the likes of the Rafale and Typhoon are in this competition, as we know of course that they are, then it’s a no-brainer to go for one of those, better choice especially in the long run.

The only “US thing” in the Typhoon IIRC, is the GPS. So I think the Typhoon is quite safe, if not, well, the US can go fu……Away. I think the US threw a hissy fit when the Typhoon was being negotiated between the UK and Saudi Arabia. Needless to say they got nowhere.

Well one of the earlier leaks was a cable from the US embasy in brazil and it was basically saying how they were trying to get Brazil to go for a US fighter for the F-X competition.

However it seems India has had its own little version of wikileaks wont go into details as it could get political but would not expect the current government to be that resistent to persuation shall we say…

I think you have to keep a clear distinction between fighters and strike aircraft when you discuss wing loadings. Strike aircraft you could argue would do better with the higher wing loading when flying low, allowing them to cope with gusts and thermals better.

You can almost imagine a tussle going on in India with some research people wanting to do an India only MCA aircraft and asking the government about why they would do the parternship and other members saying the parternership is good.

Not that anyone here would know what is really happening.

Its good that Russia continue indepedently with the T-50 its good for Russia and Good for India as when the delays kick in (and lets face it with India the FGFA will be delayed) atleast India will have the option of buying an off the shelf Fifth gen PakFa.

So how would you make life easier by having your one and only SSBN based near the COCO islands, ports being built in Bangladesh by China, and to the right covered by ports being built in Burma?

Also by obfuscate obfuscate and obfuscate I was talking about what you must do to win with a submarine. That is the whole point, is it not that makes a sub so lethal? The fact that people do not know where it is and where it will fire from? Again it is all about the shell game. Dont let your enemy know under which shell your pea is.

By basing your only nuclear submarine in the bay of bengal surrounded by listening posts and other ports and possibly hostile governments you have just allowed me to know where your main deterence for first strike is. I know the geographic location of your water based nuclear deterent and I am about to send my ASW aircraft in that region.

So if you could why wouldnt you want your nuclear submarine in the arabian sea?

Lower RCS, better radar, better ESM, better agility, higher speed, better sensor fusion, etc…

The f-22 is better than most things around however dont understand the claims its not a revolution.

also all the other things you quoted above can not be disagreed about but how much better is all of it?

Is it 2 times better? or something completely different?

and I would say that it is the former rather than the later…

Good question, but equally if you could deploy from the arabian sea why wouldnt you?

Obfuscate, obfuscate and once again obfuscate

Don’t know much more, have heard that Indian industry or scientists have not been given time of day sometimes purely down to non technical reasons. Also would say that LCA due to its length and cost over run now needs a financial and technical independent review.