Maybe this is a good time for india to buy some Bronco’s and use them for training and COIN.

Hmm yes i am advocating buying US its ok i havent hit my head, this time it actually makes sense..

Or even buy the PC-21’s

As long its not that monkey from Family Guy, you now the one? The evil Monkey?…A bit like the one that lives under my bed! Muahahahahaaaaaaaaa! :diablo:

😮 You mean mojo jojo?

a really really small nuclear plant, the size of a peanut..

Well last time i checked most peanutes were crunchy salted and roasted and contained a small amount of oil enough to heat a peanute size room for a few seconds but i wouldnt put a peanut as a air craft engine..

well you could but the peanut wouldnt get you very far.

Goooooo Peanuts..

Simply put, when the IAF wanted more Mirage 2000Vs as the MRCA because of which people say the Gripen NG is closest to that requirement…things were different. The PAFs firm procurement plan was next to non existent and the PLAAFs vision was unclear. Now its known that the PAF will get Block 52+ Vipers and J-10s, but more importantly, the PLAAF is standardizing around Flanker variants AND deploying huge numbers of S-3XX SAMs. These make a Mirage 2000V style platform, even more modern, of limited use.

India needs an advanced bomb truck with sufficient loiter time, also able to defeat today and tomorrow’s PLAAF air to air assets with a wide array of affordable munitions.

I am not sure that the Gripen NG can meet that need.

The IAF need to think assymetric! instead of bomb trucks think, cruise missiles attached to UCAVS. Mass produced UCAV’s and cruise missiles have a few tens of thousands of them with a 2K+ km range

Indian private industry can build them today..

What a muck! With the french getting over a long depression, the EF being too expensive, the U.S being unreliable, only the 35 and the Gripen are left.

I like the 35 being a fulcrum fan and all; but the Gripen NG seems v.promising -esp. with the possibility of doing a follow on MCA with SAAB. The IAF gets its much wanted diversification as well. Only trouble is the Gripen’s engine – US made ; perhaps they can buffer this with EJ-200s for the LCAs.

USS.

I have to say out of the list i would love to see these in Indian colours.

Gripen, EF 2000, Mig 35.

Strength in diversity (it is the Indian Airforce so why not make it as diverse as India).

Why does it help the IAF to have a F-16 with a re-fueling probe? :s

dont get it..

dont under stand why the IAF should go for any of the US aircraft they offer a lot less in terms of bang for buck (allround including tech transfer and less strings attached) than any of the contendors.

and now that the keys to the trophy cupboard have been handed to China by Obama one has to wonder why India should buy US equipment to find it self having its string pulled by the US on behalf of the Chinese.

Will India really get the Aim 120D ??? hmmm

What happens when the Chinese raise “concerns” to the US about selling arms to India? It plays this game with Taiwan very often

This is not meant to sound unecessarily jingoistic, no doubt indian posters will take umbrage, particularly at comments made in this post about air power. However, there is simply no doubt in my mind that any conceivable scenario involving the Typhoon and ther SU-30 on purely technical grounds would go to the British aircraft.

Not jingoistic only reality people should not have any reason to take umbrage at this..