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India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-want-our-freedom-jets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While America had offered the F-16, F-18 and now the stealth F-35 fighter, India picked for its new multi-role attack jet a low cost, older French plane. Why? For one, it's cheaper, and two, if American/Indian relations go bad, can they get the parts and equipment to keep the planes in the air? It seems prudence beat out the latest in technology."

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  1. Relying on french weapon systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just ask the Argentinians how that turned out. French weapons are worthless.

  2. Re:french military victories by Vlaix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. The failure is actually the fact of a weak and pacifist-to-the-extreme minority. Nothing to do with a fantastic pro-nazi leadership, which actually never existed before 1942.