The stickies here are pretty restrained compared to some forums I’ve seen. Nonetheless, I share the sentiment.

So, what is the rational behind such kind of vessels now?

Looking at the Kamorta-class corvettes, it appears that India is concentrating its indigenisation efforts on smaller vessels. Perhaps this new corvette project is intended in the same vein, as a low-cost means of keeping indigenous development projects ticking over.

AMCA

Many buzzwords, few details.

Some interesting snippets on Aero India from a pretty clued in defence journalist – Saurav Jha on Twitter

MTA Program with Russia

The Medium Transport Aircraft project with Russia is however stuck on the choice of engine issue.

Is this a question of PS-90 vs. PD-14, or does India seek a western engine option?

Reuters — Turkey to Go Ahead with Chinese Missile System

Really?

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-angles-to-snatch-20bln-indian-fighter-jet-deal-from-france/516023.html

You forgot to quote this bit from my post: “offering your own products or bettering your terms in response to competition is not ‘undue influence’.”

As for money, India will manage. You ought to worry about your own perilious state of finances and how you’ll continue to try to stay on par with India.

PwC has just released their latest (Feb 2015) long-term projections for global GDP. They’re very conservative on China, projecting only 3.5% average annual growth over the 2021-2030 period, but still:

So PwC projects that by 2050 India’s PPP-adjusted GDP will surpass the United States’, i.e. the same position China is in today.

Nearer to hand, if we look at military budgets in the context of likely economic growth, India’s military spending (in USD) is overtaking that of Germany and Japan right now, and will overtake that of France and the UK by early 2020s. Even before India surpasses Japan as the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, it will have settled in as a member of the “big four” military spenders, alongside USA, China, and Russia.

Funny how France and Russia were getting along and the Rafale deal started. But as soon as France and Russia no longer were getting along the Rafale deal became a mess [….] India is Russia’s cabana boy and it’s showing. Funny, India should be calling the shots in their relationship, but it’s not mature enough to see through its mental fog.

The MKI is not a good short or long term investment for India in 2015. Are they really going to buy more fighters from the 80’s??

Where to begin with this? Su-30MKI has been one of the most successful programs in IAF history. As well as being a formidable platform in its own right, it is comparable to anything fielded by either China or Pakistan, and will remain so until J-20 (which is of course to be matched by FGFA, and in any case is unlikely to mark the end of Chinese Flanker production).

As for this conspiracy theory about Russian interference in the Indo-French relationship, this is just desperate grasping at straws. What is true is that India has pointedly declined to join the western crusade against Russia, just as it has declined to join the crusade against Iran. In each case, India is driven by a keen sense of her own national interest, which only sometimes aligns with that of the western crusader states. The Indo-Russian relationship is grounded in a rich past, but maintained in the present by mutual interests. Who else was going to loan India a nuclear submarine and assist the nation in designing her own? Of course, India’s interests also drove the attempt to acquire a modern western aircraft and stream of technology transfer, both to hedge against dependence upon Russia and to force the latter to better terms at the bargaining table. If this attempt has failed, then responsibility could be assigned in many places (or to structural incompatibility) — but certainly not to Russia. India will never be America’s bitch, nor anyone else’s for that matter. To think otherwise is to grossly misread Indian history and politico-strategic culture. Western attempts to divorce India from Russia, or to force her to “choose a side” are not only doomed to fail, but are likely to backfire, just as they did in the past.

I don’t know about a “Typhoon beater”, but it’s certainly a comparable platform, albeit somewhat smaller.