I really tried to find that spokesperson, but I couldn't find anything, so I said it was unlikely. But I like publishing this type of article because it helps with counter-advertising.
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India is definitely going to need to import fighters in the 2025-2035 timeframe unless they suddenly decide they have no need to replace retiring fighters.
I have zero confidence their Tejas Mk2, TEDBF, ORCA, AMCA projects are going to be ready on time (or even get completed at all). HAL is a company whose only history with domestic fighters is producing a mediocre Tejas in small numbers.
The only issue then is whether India is going to choose Russia or the West. A lot can change in 5 years. For the moment there's still a good chance of choosing Russian
His past articles make him a Chinese Jai Hind!
Its good article and i agree with certain points like the one below. but it does not tell the whole story why things longer than West to upgrade previous stuff and introduce new one. first thing is re creating Industrial chains that were broken across Post Soviet/Eastern EU. than Russian military is very different than Soviet Military. The quality, tech, redundancy and reliability standards it requires from a product goes much beyond than anyone else. thats why products like Armata, IL-476 ,Su-57 and drones takes very long tests. These are not TB2 type drones even if they look same.
see this example. of this recent video from Turkey. This Be-200 engines developed from Soviet times but they were upgraded for marine protection. You can see glass cockpit also. The point is to have product built from 1990s tech and limitations of those budgets but still have this flight characteristics and reliability of high intensity 24/7 operations in Africa and Europe before even close to acceptance to Russian military. Now imagine what they expect from product built with today budgets and technology.
Ramping up R-37 production is certainly the first step for Russia against Nato fighter. Mig-31 and Su-35 can lobe them with impunity against 4 gen, Pakfa would offer piece of cake situations with R-37.
Article reads like a tired US government stenographer trying his hardest put all the terms required by his boss into the same article.
Part of the results of some of the international wargames is public info.
It is not news that there is a large gulf between the Russian ground forces as well as other European armies and the PLA.
However Russian land armies are competing with Europe, not China.
Worth remembering that Russia only has an economy about the size of Germany. Given their situation, Russians have a good grasp of their shortcomings and are playing to minimize them.
Past Ukraine, its only Poland who is remotely militarized, and none of the EU states have air defenses or stockpiles rivaling Ukraine. As time goes on and the war simmers down (or alternately if US escalates tensions more), Russia can directly import military modernization from China and press the Baltics.
What exact component tho. and Radar use many kinds of parts. The Chinese components could be some say IC's replacements for Western one for say the signal processor.
In most case, availability and cost are somewhat the most important criteria...redundacy could be the third one. Anyway we can see components from China in more or less anything that is not designed specifically to be without it and even then we have seen it's not true like F-35.