What money? India has contributed nothing to the Su-57.
It is funny to see people repeating long debunked nonsense from “anonymous Indian defense sources”, in other words, inventions of Indian (and other) media.
They have barely even had access to the plane aside from T-50-4 (or was it -5?) years ago.
This thread in general has long ago devolved to people who don’t actually read Russian sources parroting laughable sources like National Interest, or cherry picking the words of some Russian official to fit their narrative.
There is a reason nobody actually posts Su-57 info here anymore lol.
NIKOLAI LITOVKIN doesn’t sound very Indian to me
https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/328127-no-deal-why-russia-wont-create-indian-su57
Initially, in 2007, the sides signed a contract under which the Indian side invested to the tune of $300m in the development of the design and technical blueprint for the future aircraft. At the same time, the subsequent cost of research, first prototypes, and development of a full production cycle totaled $6bn, which Russia paid for out of its own budget.
“That is where the disagreements started. Launching production of Su-57 fighters in India meant passing all the technology of the new jet fighters to Delhi. The Indians decided that, since they had invested $300m in a project with a total cost of $6bn, Russia would immediately pass on all its research. But since there was no such clause in the contract, Moscow refused to reveal all the information to the investors,” Pavel Bulat, director of the Mechanics and Energy Systems international laboratory at the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, told Russia Beyond.
At the same time, following the maiden flight of an experimental prototype in 2010, India said it was ready to purchase 214 FGFAs (the Indian version of the Su-57) but only if they were produced exclusively on Indian territory.
According to Bulat, Russia is prepared to pass on all the technology and reveal the production secrets of the Su-57 jet fighter to India for no less than $5bn. The Indians, in turn, say that for this money they can independently develop a fifth generation fighter from scratch themselves.
Although quite honestly 300M out of 6B isn’t that much. So I can understand Russian reluctance to transfer technology
its more the thought that Russia is very willing to do business with India’s main enemy, when you know in the end China will simply just reverse engineer what they need. This doesn’t benefit Russia either.
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