Bharat Rakshak

JSDF are able to maintain a smaller Army compared to India to bankroll their Navy and AF into credible deterrents against PLA forces. Being an island they can afford to. Not us with long land borders shared with 2 nations of threat. Long land borders are not defended by a human chain of army person...

A while ago, the gentleman form Lockheed Martin had mentioned that if India purchased more than 40 C-130J aircraft, he would be willing to transfer the entire production line to an JV Indian company. Since then, all one can see is a contract for six aircraft last year, one aircraft this year and Air...

If India-Japan, Modi-Shinzo relations are so good and Japan is ready to sell military and aerospace platforms to India, what exactly is holding the US-2 contract? Why it is not being concluded? That makes me ask whether Japan would also be interested in P-75I if US-2 comes along? Any clarification?

Indian government is ready to allot USD $3 billion for Rafale as the "signing amount" this year if the deal materialises. It will spend 25-30 billion over next decade on this aircraft purchase. But, a one time sanction of USD $2 billion for AMCA and USD $1 billion to GTRE for its engine, s...

You know the idea that Shiv and I mooted a decade ago,best replacement for an old MIG-21....new MIG-21s!",seems to come to mind every now and again.Tongue in cheek of course,but with some reasoning. There is no aircraft available right now as a cheap replacement for the retiring MIG-21s other ...

Thank you Vipul! I knew we'd come full circle after 10 years. :) In fact, I had suggested this was going to come up as Plan B, earlier in this thread. And, it is a sad testimony to the utter lack of defense planning and political expediency in 2001 when the IAF simply wanted 126 new build M2Ks. How...

Even if the IOC is shifted to next year, its a fantastic achievement (one that probably won't be well received at Boeing's headquarters). Hopefully the MoD will delay the Apache deal just long enough for the LCH to arrive. It can then junk the whole acquisition without worrying about media recrimin...

@Shiv First off, discussing Pakistan as a potential adversary is mostly a waste of time unless its the context of a two-front conflict. Rafale or not we should be able to handle them comfortably when it comes to a conventional conflict. All the same, as a matter of interest it needs to be noted tha...