Well in that case, there is no divergence between any nations interests, thanks for reminding us of stuff we already know Indian.

I hope India has manged to get the LWT into production, I would realy like to see some Indian export successes, they have alot of potentially very good products.
It would be good to see Europe, Russia and USA’s dominance of the international arms market broken.

Well you can tell the British people that their taxes are going up to pay for you perfect RN, but I will be one of the self indulgent, self obsessed, lazy, spoilt, degenerates that votes for the opposition so that I can still buy an Ipod and next generation games consol.
Maybe we should reconsider our role in the world and stop marching around trying police the world.

They will never buy a third CVF, the RN will be lucky if it gets 2.
Whe get a third anyway? the CVF’s will offer more capability for the same availability as the Invincibles.
I think the second best carrier force in the world is decent enough dont you?

I once new a Lynx pilot, I asked him about what he thought of the helicopter, he said good, I asked him what he thought of it as an attack helicopter, he said he would rather attach a lawn mower engine to a coffin.
Would you want to be flying around Iraq with with small arms fire, RPG’s and the odd MANPAD coming at you in a lynx.

The Army isnt Royal, its just the Army.
It was an australian group of analysts that said 50 Raptors should be procured, not the Australian government.
Thus far both the typhoon and JSF orders look safe, I think they will only be at risk if the Liberal Democrats form a government, they hate defence spending, and sporting guns, sharp knives, people who drive cars and anyone whos family has been in Britain for more than 2 generations.

The Apache order was one of the few good things the MoD has done in recent years, its just a shame, they have taken so long about it and allowed a private company to screw up the training programme.
The apache gives the army a quantam leap in capability and the ability to deploy massive fire power from HMS ocean. For the sort of wars that Britain tends to be involved today (sierra leone, iraq/afghanistan, etc) the apache is a great machine.
Where money has been wasted is in a faliure to properly manage programmes and come up with single solutions to multiple problems, for Instance why couldnt the need for new tanker transports be combined with nimrod MRA4 programme and use a common paltform?
why are vast somes of money spent doing pointless studys? when you hear some of the ridiculous things that are studied you want to cry.
Why are things at the MoD, not just done? take the FOAS programme, started of as FOA, then became FOAS and now it has been abandoned full stop and replaced with a long term research programme into UAVs and a vague suggestion that Britain may one day cooperate with the US on a new strike aircraft. If that is what they realy want to do (but I doubt it, funny that the US thing comes up just as TB falls out with everyone in europe) why dont they just go to the americans and say we want a strike platform we would like to cooperate with you lets do it, and see what they say.

It is almost certain that the WS10A is not based on the AL31, but is rather a combination of indigenous technologys, and what has been aquired from elsewhere over the years. (largely the US desighn they aquired in th 80s). It is also very likely that in recent years AL31 tech has been introduced to the WS10A.
An interesting point is that, the AL31 (If I remember correctly) had to be specially modified in order to fit in the J10, this suggests that the J10 was thus not desighned for the AL31, but rather an existing indigenous desighn-WS10A?
Also remember that when J10 development began china and the soviet union were not exactly good friends, thus the chances of china recieving thier latest engine technology during that era are slim to say the least.
Knowone deighns a plane without an engine.
SD10/PL12 is supposedly a modified indiginised russian seeker head on a fully indigenous airframe and motor-range is believed to be supeior to Russian equivilants but manouvrebility characteristics are at this stage impossible to confirm.
I would not be surprised if we did see the kind of production rates crobato has suggested, china already has the largest naval building programme of any nation since the end of the cold war, and the PLAAF is considered to be the weakest of the 3 services.