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Apparently, the US is applying pressure on the Indian Govt. to cancel the MRCA and go for the F-35, but it isn’t likely to happen.

What makes you say that? A couple of LM reps saying that the F-35 is available to India if the USG allows it?

:confused: how did you conclude that ?

So, no more than 2 SRAAMs or 4 MRAAMs ever?

According to this weap loadout posted above:
http://tejas.gov.in/specifications/weapons.html

Dec 5th AWST mentions that there is an order for 4 EMB-175I with another 15 “likely”.

Also, with the RFI for ground surveillance radar to Raytheon, one wonders if the IAF has something like this on its mind?

From Albania to Afghanistan, US Army integrates lessons into latest Apache

Some news item quotes:
Source

“Our fighter squadrons will go up to 42 (from the existing 34) by end of the 13th Plan or 2022…We will be comfortable then,” said ACM Browne.

I had predicted the IAF fighter sqdn strength at around 40ish at 2022 time frame. Which means that the IAF will be inducting fighters at even higher rate than this optimistic chart implies. 😎 Perhaps the PAK-FA / FGFA will be inducted faster than this prediction or that mysterious 40 fighters for the SFC is being counted as well…?

After around 2016, there will definitely be a major uptick in IAF fighter strength. With no let up in inductions for around 2 decades 😉

Hasn´t there been talk of inducting more MMRCA, and also quicker, possibly outside of HAL production, as well as for nuclear strike role?

My prediction takes the upper end of the MMRCA numbers mentioned at around 200. The strategic force of additional 40 frames (of some type) is not taken into account unless some more concrete news comes out on that front. At which point a revised prediction will be made 😀

Using GE, at Dabolim, one can see 5 Il-38SD, 1 Mig-29K on the runway, the land based ski-jump under construction, the new goat sheds and apron for the Ks amongst other construction work going on there. And if you look carefully, you might find a SHAR as well.