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GiantPanda said:

There are more Chinese interdictions and intercepts of fucking Canadian and Australian aircraft than of Indians. (In fact, I cannot find a SINGLE picture of an Indian intercept by China or vice versa despite the Indian bullshit about the MKI being able to detect the J-20 a thousand miles in China about 7 or 8 years ago when there were none in Tibet.)

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There was an Indian MKI that crashed near the Chinese border several years ago of unknown causes. Investigations showed complete loss of communications and ejection seat failure (or not attempted). Chinese EW interference was suspected.

GiantPanda said:

There are more Chinese interdictions and intercepts of fucking Canadian and Australian aircraft than of Indians. (In fact, I cannot find a SINGLE picture of an Indian intercept by China or vice versa despite the Indian bullshit about the MKI being able to detect the J-20 a thousand miles in China about 7 or 8 years ago when there were none in Tibet.)

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Obvious answer is that there's no international waters in question. Aka intercept can happen only if border is crossed, which is a major accident. Sides can fly around on their sides of the border, and the border there isn't exactly conductive for meddling with each other (Himalayas are high enough to interfere with air ops).

And yes, in practice Canadians and Australians are more hostile towards China than India. As they willingly cross from afar to mess around.
Aka, Indian hostility to China is historical and tied to actual areas with very uneasy history. "Eyes" and NATO create problems very much on purpose, even when just reaching these areas is a significant undertaking.

Deino said:

there is still no solution for the use of the Rafale with the too small lifts or with the too small gates to the lower deck. Accordingly, it remains the same, the Rafales will have to stay on deck ... only no one is allowed to talk about it in India, because anything besides Jai Hind cheers are unwanted.

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Wait! That Rafales needing to stay on deck passed over my head in the first reading (the arresting gear issues stem from the Kuznetsov so it is sort of known and not surprising.)

But now I am very disappointed that they are not doing the tilting the aircraft sideways or making the wingtips removable solution and instead just giving up on moving them into the ship's hangars.

Those solutions were written about for years. I really wanted to how those solutions would have worked out. It would have been epically comedic to document in a real world environment.

I don‘t understand how India has an acanced space program but fail miserably at military aerospace.