They still need permission from said specific country.
Say if they go with Russian weapons, gotta need permission from Russia (and so on with the rest as well).
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Say if they go with Russian weapons, gotta need permission from Russia (and so on with the rest as well).
Thats the thing isn't it, said countries looking to purchase Tejas cannot for example get an American engine because they have poor relations with USA. Or maybe they have poor relations with Israel like Indonesia, so no Radars.
I'd like to see you sell Tejas with R-73 missiles, an Israeli radar, and an American Engine to Egypt or Brazil lmao.
The airplane is literally a bureaucratic, political and logistical nightmare in the making.
And I don't really see any prospective customers for the Tejas that has good relationship with the US and Israel who provide critical components of the jet.
Like, who are the target customers for export?
For example, if China wanted to sell the J-10C, there wouldn't be such a problem because everything is designed and made in China (engine, radar, airframe, weapons,etc . ), so no messy political negotiations necessary.
Tejas can be marketed to Egypt, offering Indian, European, and American missiles. Is there a necessity to include Israeli missiles? India, having amicable ties with various nations, including Russia and Israel, can equip Tejas with Indian, Russian, Israeli, European, and American missiles. The decision on which missiles to purchase with Tejas rests with the buying country.
Does India have any role besides integrating the missile into the jet when a country wishes to buy a missile from Russia?
The issue isn't about whether someone will buy Tejas or not. The argument that Tejas cannot be sold to Egypt due to Israeli missiles, among others, is flawed. F-16s also have Israeli missiles integrated, yet they are sold to countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or Qatar.
Peak Indian logistics be like:
Most sources suggests that this is a PARA-SF unit recently deployed near the Chinese border (Tibet AR). In this image alone, there's:
At least fifteen types of camo:
The only surprising thing here is that they somehow managed to reduce their armaments down to only the TAR-21 and AK-203, which is definitely a solid logistical improvement over whatever zoo they had before. The fact this is also PARA-SF, one of the elite SOF units in India, shows just how bizarre things must be lower down in the conventional units
Most sources suggests that this is a PARA-SF unit recently deployed near the Chinese border (Tibet AR). In this image alone, there's:
At least fifteen types of camo:
- UCP
- OCP
- MTP
- MC (original)
- Turkish M2008
- Finnish M05
- M81 woodland
- NWU-81
- MARPAT (3 variations)
- Indian PC-DPM
- Indian PC-DPM (pink)
- Indian PC-DC
- Three others I cannot identify
- British Virtus
- French Felin
- Indian Patka
- Indian ACH
- MICH-2000 equivalent
- FAST equivalent
The only surprising thing here is that they somehow managed to reduce their armaments down to only the TAR-21 and AK-203, which is definitely a solid logistical improvement over whatever zoo they had before. The fact this is also PARA-SF, one of the elite SOF units in India, shows just how bizarre things must be lower down in the conventional units
My experience is that the more "elite" levels, the less standardisation of kit.
Troopers kinda wear unique kit as trophies of their unique experiences with foreign deployments and bi/multi-lateral exercises. While it's usually harder to get away with uniforms (unless out field), we often got away with patrol hats, belt kit, webbing/LBVs/plate carriers (where they fit the plates) and rucks. The one area you can't get away with, is exactly what the pictures supports, is the stuff that goes bang (and the really expensive stuff like NODs) - basically controlled items.
I'd say this is more a case of soldiers bragging their swag rather than concrete indication of peak IA logistics - Conventional line units otoh are much more rigid in their TO&E
I will bet India's GDP on that, they had no clue about the reason you said when they wore it.
India now producing shells for Ukraine.
This says a lot about "BRICS".
This says a lot about "BRICS".