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Gloire_bb

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Egypt and Malaysia want tot and weapons deals. Lca can be assisted by sweetening those deals and find a sale or two. It would be well behind jf-17 in this regard which has made more than two export sales and at least used in combat. All military sales of such scale are more politics and brown paper bags filled with cash than they are about competence and capability anyway. I'm surprised china hasn't played that card more with potential customers but it also doesn't seem like china cares too much about the jf-17 platform seeing as Pakistan earns half a slice of an already small pie. There's just no point bribing and taking risks for little gain but for India... Go for it!
Well, it's really hard to pen markets for a new entrant without an established reputation (on the contrary - established slightly doubtful reputation).
Normal way for such entrances is either doing it through cooperation and alliance networks(Korea way - but India, despite it slight lean towards the west, is non-aligned), or to those in dire need of weapons (Tejas has far too many US/Israeli components to even in most cases, and warm Indian relations with Russia worth more than any conceivable Tejas deal).

That leaves only small sweetened deal with token airforces(preferably dependant).
Frankly speaking - they probably should establish at least a few squadrons of mk.1A(which they are actually trying to sell), and visibly use it for some COIN. It'll at least ensure that someone they bribe (yes, sounds bad. yes, everyone is doing that) can tell that he buys something that works. Right now that hypothetical official simply can't.
 

Abominable

Major
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Why would any country spend $50 million on an Indian jet? It's a lot of money for a platform that even the Indians don't seem to be inducting.

Last I heard the T-50, gripen were going cheaper than that. Egypt will never buy a non American fighter while they receive billions of US aid to spend on military gear, I don't know why their name is even being put out there.

I think all these Indian news reports are just the Indian media getting high on cow dung (again). That or it's another Indian scam.
 

Gloire_bb

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Why would any country spend $50 million on an Indian jet? It's a lot of money for a platform that even the Indians don't seem to be inducting.
Imagine a country that is at war and doesn't have any other choice.
Frankly speaking, I am almost sure Ukraine would now buy as much as it can, yesterday. But...supplying arms to Ukraine during a war is an obvious political no-go for India itself. Israel(radar supplier) may not be too happy either.
Egypt will never buy a non American fighter while they receive billions of US aid to spend on military gear, I don't know why their name is even being put out there.
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FairAndUnbiased

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Some Indian analysts say the new light tank will use the chassis of the Korean K9 howitzer and possibly a cockerill turret. Does anyone know how efficient that would be? Maybe in developmental costs it would be cheaper but what about usage of space, positioning of engine, driver etc and armor protection.

Would they be able to get the tank in the 30-35 ton range with similar mobility and protection as the Type 15?
lol they're using a high profile, poorly armored artillery chassis for a tank? genius. Jai Hind.

Type 15: 35 tons vs. K9: 47 tons. Both have 1000 HP engine.

Type 15 has ERA armor package and most of all was designed for it, K9 does not.

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