I am sure the Dutch will take your feeling of safety when they decide what to buy. No one cares in which aircraft you feel safer 😉

Nerves were struck I see :diablo:

See, in the above Mr. Pogosyan is implying that local Indian contractors will get many contracts to manufacture “nuts & bolts” of PAK-FA, India being a cheap manufacturing destination. Many local firms that supply parts to ISRO, DRDO etc. are likely to be “roped in” for this also.

Seems to me like you Indians are getting used for slave labour purposes, I thought you guys had laws against that sort of exploitation.

Oh, well, I will just cross my fingers and hope F-35 will beat all future threats the next 50 years or so…

And you honestly think the Gripen in any varient is going to be good for the next 50 years? :rolleyes:

I missed this one in the first place! So it’s 1.8 M? I wonder what LordAssap/GlobalPress/Sampaix/Fonk has to say…:diablo::p:D

That was the very first thing i thought as I laughed loudly to myself. That sucker must be red faced now.

The target set, if you include Russian boats at all, is now just a very modest number of increasingly discrete SSN’s and, for the remainder, a sprinkling of commercial export SSK designs. The S-3’s arent a good fit to counter either sufficient to justify their inclusion in the airgroup.

It really is that simple.

Isn’t the S-3’s MAD gear good for exactly that though – finding quiet subs in littoral waters?

In any large-scale engagement between F-35 and Su-35BM/Rafale/Typhoon on relatively equal terms

Thats your first mistake, thinking any competent commander is going to commit his forces to the fight on equal terms. You’d probably be looking at any where from four to sixteen F-35s in any decent strike package, plus all the other aircraft doing thier jobs such as Raptors, AWAC etc etc.
The truth is fact that the F-35 not having heaps and heaps of Amraams is not going to matter to much at all.