Ali_Baba
VIP Member
They walked away from the "stealthy Flanker" because it wasn't stealthy enough, and not enough tech transfer from their best buddies. The Russians are now desperate for cash, so developed the twin seater they wanted. This'll be the su30 all over again, obsolete by they time it rolls off their production line.
If the Indians had any sense, they would take the airframe, engines, FBW, ie the core platform etc but make sure the entire avionics and electronics suites, and munitions, datalink, ie everything is 100% Indian. i.e. not waste time arguing over workshare of those items. They have enough experience and intellectual property from their Darin projects, Tejas and R&D into AMCA to do that now ( I know we laugh about Indian Software engineering capabilities, but there some very capable people in India that they can use. ).
Lets see how much sense they have.



