Su-30MKI destroyed Typhoons 12:0 in dogfights and dominated them even in BVRs way back in exercise IndraDhanush 2015 that took place over the British sky.Because rafale and carry as many meteors as the typhoon or gripen. It has more capacity in terms of weapon capacity but still cannot carry as many meteors. It's tactics for BVR and dogfighting are actually extremely similar to how IAF treats air combat(low altitude low speed ambush rather than maintaining higher altitude advantage with high speed to take out opponent which is a more american style way of fighting). The typhoon offers us the high speed high altitude style of options. The su-30mki really doesn't because of lack of good bvr missiles. We don't have the r-37m. Only the typhoon and f-15EX can give us this ability. The typhoon can carry 6 meteors or amraams and will launch it at a higher speed and altitude. IAF has good ground and pounders in their collection. Mirage, su-30mki, tejas, jaguar, rafale. We need more air superiority focused aircrafts that can also do ground and pound. Typhoon does it decently with the meteor,it also has kepd-350 and hope and hosbo, SDB 3's, brimstone , marte-er. Basically a bunch of European stand off munitions. That give us ability to manufacture a range of munitions in India that can be manufactured in India and re-exported back to OEM countries like France Italy, germany in case of situations like war,policy implementations. Redundancy needs to be created. Plus if we plan to join gcap even in a case of backup getting into the typhoon program will give us assistance in joining gcap.
I think in any case the rafale will be now produced in India. I just want the typhoon or f-15EX so that we can have a huge radar plane with a good capacity of carrying BVR.
What makes you think that MKI is a low-altitude mud-mover and not a high-altitude BVR launcher? Are IAF dumb to bill it as their 'Air Dominance Fighter', 'cause only USAF uses that term for F-22 Raptor? In fact, MKI has insane kinematics up high and it can launch Astra from even 55k altitude extending its range quite a lot. MKI UPG. with Virupaksha + Gandiva combo is going to be way more superior than Typhoon or F-15EX.
MRFA was always meant for acquiring French birds(first M-2000, then Rafale) in a non-controversial way. Others are just place holders.
Even if we procure F-21s as MRFA, then that's just a price to get F-35s and to establish GE engine supply chain in India.
Your demand of F-15EX or Typhoon as MRFA winners literally makes no sense whatsoever.