It is really unbelievable to have 7 engines as spare for one aircraft. This is the first time I heard about it.
Several thoughts right out of my imagination:
1) The engine must be crap, it only have a around 100 hours service life to have 7 add up to be 1000.
2) The aircrafts must be very busy in the ground very often to keep changing the engines instead of flying.
3) IAF must be very rich, they spent around 60-65 millions for a single fighter (around 35-40 mil plus 25 mil: 3.5mil X 7 engines)
4) They spent around 8 billions for total of 120 bare-bone aircraft and engines plus weapons, avionic, and other system. Then the total project is way over 10 billions. But, recall from my memory of reading from the past, the amount they spent is much less than this.
5) The sale of 920 engines encourages Russia not to fix problems, but to produce more defected merchandises. This is a large amount of order plus producing for China. So they really have to rush out all orders in a short period of time, a sign of bad quality and more defects.
This stated number is really way out of reasonable. Something wrong here, may be someone is lying or made it up. Until there is a concrete approve or evidence of such transaction, no one is going to believe it.
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