With India and Russia, do you think the US would be foolish to sell the F 35?
How did pakistan get latest F-16 when they were in bed with communists?.
None of them are allies and turkey will end up getting it in few years with the new administration.
After 2017, China and India have entered into a de facto hostile state. It is foolish to say after 2020 that China wants India to remain neutral. The lack of alliance between India and the US is more due to the obvious contradictions between them
Look it up with Google, all three countries have signed military alliance treaties with the US, don't be so stupid
Where did i say India is neutral? Pushing india more will reduce the contradictions which is the point.
You clearly dont know what a treaty alliance means. Anything close is Turkey, which is through NATO not directly with USA.
P8I,Ah64E,Sounds good, but it's not a core technology, But the F35 is the core US aviation technology, the US is willing to sell the F16 to India, but will never sell the F35
It is public information that India did not oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine, nor did it participate in the US sanctions against Russia, but instead bought cheap Russian oil on a massive scale
China doesn't care, it's as simple as that, I think Modi would love to be aligned with the US now like the Philippines, but the US is not willing to, the US will not see a strong India in the South Asian subcontinent and Indian Ocean
Read it again. Its not a defence pact but a designation. Even India has equal status as the same since 2016.Wikipedia at its simplest
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I said this last month, look were we are now.
He didn't offer sales but just showed intention to think about it.
This is the third time I'm watching F-35 at aero india. It's nothing special.
Trump has clearly said he wants us to buy more US military hardware and selling combat ac to India has been a long-cherished dream of multiple administrations. F-35 is on the table because India has refused to buy any of the teen series fighters. If we sent them an LoR tomorrow, you can be sure Trump will clear F-35 for India. It's India that would have more reservations (and rightly so) about an F-35 deal than the US.
In the backdrop of the proxy war going on in Ukraine, Russian and US 5G jets sitting inches away from each other and flying sorties at an airshow tells me that serious negotiations are underway within MoD and PMO. The GoI could be downplaying it. Time will tell.
Nope, its not that easy with S400. We will not be going to move forward without external pressure like i said.
There is no connection. Whether there is war or not, that jet would still be here.
It can only be said that India is still living in the previous era, the threat of the F35 has never been how its aircraft performance, but as the most powerful information center in the battlefield, is the cornerstone of the US distributed kill theory, while in India, unfortunately, it does not play its due role, because the IAF's weapons are basically Russian and French aircraft. Not even the most basic link16I said this last month, look were we are now.
The threat of F-35 is enough to deter J-35.
It could be that we requested Americans to show the intention, not the other way around as people make it out to be.
Trump Offers F-35 Jet to India in Push for More Defense DealsNick Wadhams | February 13, 2025
President Donald Trump said the US would offer the F-35 warplane to India as part of a bigger commitment to deepen defense ties.
The US will increase sales of military hardware to India by “many billions of dollars,” Trump said at a joint White House press conference alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening.
“We’re also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters,” the president said.
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F 35 will probably be bought only when we give US the MRFA tender as well which will help us in getting the link 16 as well. The chances of acquisition for the F 35 is very low though because IAF will request for several adjustments and several other negotiations including the links will be needed which is going to take a long time. I don't see it happening especially if we buy the Rafale under MRFA.
The merits of the F-35 are beside the point. You completely misunderstood the threat that the F-35 poses if the J-35 is offered. Total lack of awareness of how the world works.
