Sumeet wrote:Well do you think when jets are being evaluated for purchase they have to fly 300 or more sorties for being selected as the winner ? Do you seriously think IAF will make MRCA bidders fly 300 sorties each to evaluate which one is the best ?parshu wrote: basically its difficult to classify one fighter against the other in short excercises. The envelope is so big that for a realistic analysis, both aircraft would have to fly 300 or maybe more sorties together for any sort of real evaluation.
You are right, i realised that even as I made the post. I guess the fighter procurement process, no matter how throrough, is a satta. After all, we could choose the MiG-35, for instance and find the Pakistanis have picked the F-16/52 or Gripen which may ( for argument's sake only) be better. The only safe choice seems to be the rafael or EFT, (or JSF!)with nothing better than them but they're too costly.