India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France

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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Relying on french weapon systems?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Many versus Awesome

[ShieldW0lf]

He's not describing exterminating the enemy. He's describing sending the meat-heads to kill each other off so they won't fuck things up for the rest of us. And that IS the true purpose of war. To weed out the violent meat-heads and hopefully prevent them from propagating their genetic material.

The problem with modern war is that solders come home alive.

Re:french military victories

[Vlaix]

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.

Re:Slashdot flamebait headline misses the point

[countertrolling]

Slashdot has no political agenda whatsoever. The only agenda here is to appease the advertisers.