I am starting to love Le French. America under Obama are a bunch of cowards so the free world needs a resurgent France/U.K to teach the terrorists a lesson. And it also serves as a good show case for French weapons.

Go Rafale, Go France. Go Freedom.

A bit off topic but do you think the Brahmos can be a carrier killer, assuming it hits the carrier, its much larger than the Chinese missile for example.

Oh yes 🙂

Not just that we should have enough agents in enemy countries to respond in kind to any any terrorist attacks.

So the Bison it seems is one of the best dogfighters around. No wonder the IAF did not want to replace them with the less agile Tejas MK1s. Which begs the question what will replace the Bisons in IAF service if the MK2 is delayed. Surely the Mk2 won’t be ready by 2017 for induction when the Bisons are supposed to be retired.

If the contract is signed in 2013 Rafale should be ready by 2016, but in limited numbers and using Rafale/MKI for the roles done by the Bison is going to be an expensive affair.

I think there is still room for a small Swedish fighter,

Thank you they are great :).

The US didn’t offer their best products and hence they lost.

And its much safer to have your mainstay fleet from a quasi totalitarian regime like Russia than its from the U.S, where changing administration and congress can be a real pain the ass.

I do envisage F 35 in Indian service in the future, India’s High – Low mix could be T 50 and F 35 along with some AMCA thrown in.

I think in the next 20 years India will have to be part of one bloc or the other. And I keep an open mind to which, we have shown little enthusiasm in being part of a U.S coalition against an emerging China. But Chinese still continue to support Pakistan and show passive aggression towards India, now their policy may change, but pushed hard from both sides India may inadvertently end up in the U.S camp.

A shift in Chinese policy may however mean great hegemony between the two nations and thwart U.S attempts in the region, I do think India holds they key to that tussle (not economically but Geo-politcally).