India nearly sold off its sovereignty so they can "face China" which is a joke cause China can run circles around India.
There is nothing worse than having enemies for neighbours... but it takes both sides to work to make it so.
Obviously some neighbours can't be reasoned with.... their hatred is deep and is not going away... say like Russia and Poland or Russia and the Baltic states... but of course situations can change... as the EU gets more perverted they might remember their religious roots... but whatever...
The point is that despite what the US is whispering in Indias ear, China and India don't need to be enemies... it doesn't help India, it doesn't help China... it certainly helps the US to sabotage potential cooperation between the two most populous countries on the planet...
Different 'consultancy' schemes?
Delicious... in fact you could say the Indian government and Indian politicians that decide weapons contracts are not actually corrupt... what they are is they are as flexible, as duplicitious, and as spinnable as the English Language itself....
I remember reading a western book about a defence contract with a country for which Britain and France were competing and the inuendo was that the French product won the competition not on merit (written by the Brit who was certain of the superiority of the product... which of course is up for question), but because he said the French side furnished the deciders with top quality women of questionable virtue who were happy to do anything at all, and the Brits didn't.
Considering this is the Market Russia found itself thrust in to in the 1990s no wonder they didn't do exceptionally well... when the other side will lie and provide that sort of thing to the deciders... I am surprised Russia ever got a look in.
I feel sorry for the military people who had to put up with the crap that was bought for them...
India nearly sold off its sovereignty so they can "face China" which is a joke cause China can run circles around India.
When they should be working together with China, like Russia is now working with China so both sides benefit and grow and develop... it is a much healthier way to steer your country.
The rafales are under strict agreements. And the Indians are pissed that none of the agreements were met. Honestly, they deserved it.
They irony is that India actually wanted to licence produce Mirage 2000s, but France demanded they buy Rafales at an eye watering price. So India held a competition for a 10.4 billion dollar programme to buy 126 fighter aircraft, which they declared the Rafale the winner... but ended up spending 8.4 billion on 36 fighters...
Take for instance Philippines. Last week instead of purchasing Yakhont they decided to purchase BRAHMOS from India. Brahmos has a modest 200 kgs warhead. Apart from that a Yakhont salvo launch of 4 - has one missile as ‘scout seeker’ flies high to ID the targets, with other 3 at mid-level altitude… all 4 then fly in to hit allocated targets.
BRAHMOS has no such capability. Yet the Philippines are purchasing a substandard missile.
Brahmos is based on the Yakhont and should have the same or better capabilities of the original Yakhont, though I suspect Yakhonts would also be upgraded... the first ones were anti ship only... Brahmos added land attack and different attack profiles.
For instance a land target might not have very good air defence... most modern ships had decent long range radar and serious SAM and gun defences, while many ground targets don't have either... flying at 3-5m above the wave tops makes you hard to spot and hard to engage but reduces flight range and top speed... a single missile might climb to 1km altitude to scan for targets and then drop back down and share target information and allocate targets to other missiles in the group but it wont stay up high for long... just long enough to get a radar snapshot of the enemy group of ships.
The enemy ships will detect the radar scan but if they scan to find the target themselves they might catch the single missile or it might have already dropped down below the radar/line of sight horizon to continue in with the other missile in the group... moving at 600m/s... about the speed of a rifle bullet, they will close distance very quickly...
But against some targets flying very high... 25km altitude makes more sense... the flight range of the missiles would be double and the flight speed would be rather faster in the thinner cold air too.... the target might detect them but can't hit targets that high with most of it weapons...
As the missiles approach the target area they might pitch up and climb a little and then dive down vertically on the target... most radar and missiles and even guns can't hit you and you get a gravity assist on the dive at high speed.
The Phillipines probably went for Brahmos because politically it is easier to buy from India than from Russia I suspect... they have to wean themselves off of American weapons, and I am sure the Brahmos will impress them compared with Harpoon.
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