World Affairs Board - View Single Post - US wants India's fighter jet order, dangles F-35 carrot

sohamsri · 04-17-2008, 01:22 AM

i think india did the right thing in ignoring the f-35... we are making fifth gen fighters with russia anyway.

We have two choices :-

1. Buy f-35s, knowing nothing about its technology..... staying on the american mercy....having nighmares in its maintainence

OR

2. Build the fifth gen fighter with russia in which half the work is done by us, and we know about every single piece of technology that is being used....plus we can even design it according to our requirements.

I dont think any1 will defer that the second one is a better choice.

04-17-2008, 01:22 AM	#10 (permalink)
sohamsri *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 02-26-08 Location: New Delhi Posts: 953 Country:	i think india did the right thing in ignoring the f-35... we are making fifth gen fighters with russia anyway. We have two choices :- 1. Buy f-35s, knowing nothing about its technology..... staying on the american mercy....having nighmares in its maintainence OR 2. Build the fifth gen fighter with russia in which half the work is done by us, and we know about every single piece of technology that is being used....plus we can even design it according to our requirements. I dont think any1 will defer that the second one is a better choice.