Hard to imagine as India is offered full partner status in the Typhoon program.

I just want to say that I saw the Vulcan at Volkel and it was an awesome sight. It is unbelievable that a few determined individuals made this possible and one can not thank them enough.
And you can´t fault the organizers for the the Vulcan not showing up, they hardly have any influence.

Or simply buy from a proven supplier that has been giving them air-refuelling tankers for over 50 years – Boeing.
The KC-767AT meets or exceeds all operational needs. It is a proven design and ready for series production right now. And it is more suitable for the USAF needs.

But due to liberal fascists in the government the tender had been made to fit the French plane.

Still a faith believer in advertisment claims?! First do make-up your mind, why a modern radar has several modes to operate with?!. Second some of that are useful only, when the pilot/crew has the info, when to “look” where?! Third why a lot of money is spent to equip even stealth fighters with the most advanced EW-suit too. All the range data of modern radars are outside the EW-enviroment. It did happen more than once during exercises, that a fighter pilot could see by eyesight a B-52, when the own radar was still blanked out. Something claimed by fighter pilots in exercises with F-22A too. Just in that case not by stealth at first, but stealth enhanced by a formidable EW-suit.
Maybe you get an idea, why the MiG-25/31 have so powerful radars, it is not for range at first. 😉
When drawings of the detection envelope of a radar do show a ful area, it does look like a hedgehog most of the time.
We do agree, that it does not make sense for the F-22A to cruise around at supersonic speed to pick-up low level opponents.
To use that speed and stealth does create some “Swiss Cheese” in the coverage by SAMs to engage the enemy at home.

Practical however it is very unlikely that F-22 will ever go to war without all the rest of the goodies of the US. And the again the AESA allows it to use different modes at the same time. And especially the look-down-mode is not limited by radar output power but more by processing power and while the F-22 is already dated in that area it is still ahead of all other currently operational fighters.
And then there is the simple problem of energy. If I fire the same missile from 50 feet at a target at 50.000 feet, while I am at M 0.8 and he is at M1.6, I need to come much closer then he would need to fire the same missile down at me.

The gun is no precision weapon anyway. Although AH-64 showed to be very precise, it is still an area weapon and if you shoot some one with 30mm HE it won´t matter if you are 0,5m off.

Ah, so the Kaveri is not dead yet? I thought it had become a technology program only, but if it is still to be final engine for LCA, well then there will be no LCA.

I must really wonder how it could be cheaper to up-grade a plane like the MiG-35 (which will only be flown by India) compared to other planes like F-18,F-16 or EF with different users and a certain upgrade path ahead, either by the many customers (F-16) and or by the original “home” Air Forces.

(Rafale and Grippen are different)

If you want to talk logistic advantages then EF and F-18 look good, as both could share the engine with LCA.

One should not forget that the KC-767 matches the original requirement to 100%, Boeing has 50 years of experience in tanker building and supporting the tanker fleet.

It is obvious that the only right choice is Boeing.

A military aircraft made from cheap composites, that showed regular failures in civil service, is something the USAF should never buy.