TFX is a riskier venture because they want full LO and develop indigenious engine at the same time. Higher reward but when you put new airframe with new engine then can leads to overruns.
The way Indo and Turk can collab in near future after both planes operational is when developing sub system...
the economy stand point for buying weapons from abroad is how we secure the loan.. no loan no deal.. russian deal loan are brokered by private sector which makes the deal "malleable".. to both side interest.. not so much with US or European deal, but they have more favorable interest rate and...
then there is favoritism with the equipment they assigned.. so its sukhoi block with rassiya stronkk mindset vs viper block with multirole uber alles mindset.. IFX supporter is rare.. and younger officer who has different voice with their seniors are even rarer..
this makes voice supporting IFX...
Orba prevent any tech RnD that doesnt align with "padat karya" scheme.. that is why semiconductors is not in favor with manufacturing. its a choice by that govt given the condition in the day
buying KFX will be sunk cost.. any weapon purchase is basically sunk cost..
and the only way we can recuperate that 20% dev cost is by getting parts manufacturing deal
which we should.. so that any KFX that goes to ROKAF, TNI, or any other buyer will have PTDI manufactured parts..
but in the...