Israel was out numbered and caught by surprise in the six day war and still beat the Arabs, actually I remember watching Dsicovery channel about the war and them talking about how the Syrians were close to tel Aviv but the great Syrian leadership decided to stop and not proceed, also talked about how appointments in the army have more of a political nature rather than skill. The Syrian airforce? see the article above.

Defence spending in India accounts for a mere 2.5% of GDP, quite low compared to most countries, India is a big economy, GDP of more than 600B US and good GDP growth rate, also defence procurement is spread over x number of years. Its not like India or any other country for that matter pays the full amount upfront, its spread over many years, hence it becomes affordable.

True enough, HAL will surely need to be building up more production lines, I don’t know if its optimal, just think about it, Mirage line, LCA line, Sukhoi line, MiG-29K maintainance, jag maintainance, MiG-27 upgrade etc etc etc, that is a lot, one thing is for sure, HAL will be helping out the unemployment rate for years to come.
The new Government minimum program draft is out and for defence it talks about speeding up defence procurements and using all the defence funds allocated in buying defence equipment as fast as possible and not letting the fund sit and end up being returned to the Gov at the end of the financial year, see we told you that defence procurement would not change.

Google for the same price as an f-22, you could get super models of your choice cooking you breakfast and more for the rest of your life.

Phantom, Kdrafat is better left to his own dellusions, the Syrian airforce got wiped out in the 82 war, only a wetdreamer would claim that Israeli pilots were < or equal to Syrian pilots. I still remember reading about the drones the Israelis sent and the Syrian SAMs launched their missiles at them and the Israeli AF came in right behind and destroyed the SAMs. Even last year, Israeli planes flew over Bashar’s palace and kdrafat is talking about the Syrian airforce. Soviets were idiots? don’t make me laugh kdrafat!

“Heck, if the FC-1 threads weren’t locked so frequently because of flamers (like the one currently complaining about the plethora of FC-1 threads but who repeatedly posts in them) we would have had a nice, single thread on the FC-1 from pictures of 01’s assembly to the flight of prototype 03.”

Me a flamer, lol, please do provide proof, the webbie never informed me, last time I checked it was your clan who had their posted edited by the webbie for using foul urdu terms in a forum lol, actually if you look at what I post, its the same thing, I say that the threads are useless, i only actually post on the news and discussion thread which is the appropriate thread for discussion, hence the name, so please gd unless you have proof that I am a flamer, I may be a FC-1 wetdream breaker, flamer, nah, talk to the webbie if you have proof, or else just stick to posting pics.

Let us hope that all 3rd world countries do well, including China, no idea why India pops up here but anyway…
China still has a big rural income differential gap and a very fragile and inefficient banking system which could be affected if the Yuan is no longer pegged as tightly to the US dollar, distorted population pyramid blablabla but anyway moving on now, I like Asian aviation, it is where the news is at, I just get annoyed when I see 3 threads about the same thing on the same page, it is unnecessary and pushes other threads down, you do not need more than one FC-1, J-10 etc, thread webbies should take note.