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Originally Posted by ajaybhutani
the point to note is that a lot of development has been done. List the TVC is there already. Saperate investments have been done for the AESA. (which are not there in the budget account here.). In the same way lots of avionics etc are developed or in stages of developments via SU47 project and MFI project. Though even after that 2.5 B $ might not be nough. but surely it wont need the extent of investment needed for F22/F35/EF2000.
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yeah, that's a good point, actually China and Russia is co-developing AL-41, I'm suspecting India is probably involved too.
As for AESA, the issue is not whether Russian can produce one or not, but whether or not they can produce one to the level of APG-77/APG-81.