https://old.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/comments/z9o8ps/so_much_for_india_egypt_relations
HAL already lost Malaysia, now they lost Egypt, and soon they'll lose Argentina as well. HAL and ADA were and still are overambitious and overconfident. It's just getting too embarrassing, I can't handle this humiliation.
Don't know what he was expecting. India first to first make wide use of it before any country buys it.
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So this is the SEND BOB AND VAGENE of making military arms deals.
Shout out to /u/adi-C-1401 and the other sane pahjeets in the that thread getting downvoted for pointing out that taking on several overambitious projects in a short time frame doesn't constitute long term planning. The rest are just nationalists sneeding about how the Indian jet is objectively better than the Korean one by claiming the official specs are better but kept sooper sekrit. When told why this is just copium propaganda they demand objective proof. All this peepee swinging over a jet that India's armed forces don't even want lol. Just look at this dude that states that his internet research (that he doesn't provide) makes him more qualified than the air forces of several countries to say that based sexy Indian dude jet > dumb gook plane.
I think arguments between South Asians should be regarded as cognitohazards for all other races, cause it's genuinely mindbreaking if you aren't used to arguing with fellow pahjeets. Each response will have it's own reality and context that it's arguing from. It's something akin to goalpost shifting but instead the soccer field is changed to a basketball court by the 3rd reply.
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I think Tejas is at least better than the migs it's supposed to replace and would be an overall improvement for the Airforce but obviously you can't expect other countries to spend billions on an aircraft that hasn't seen mass deployment.
As an aside, someone told me that Egypt pres was invited mainly for the Wheat deal not Tejas and these guys have only themselves to blame for thinking otherwise.
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It's just utterly darning when the country's own air force only has 40 of those planes made jfl.
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Yeah, it's shocking. Like when I first started lurking Indian forums more than a decade back people were talking about how Tejas is being delayed but how hopeful they're about it replacing the migs in the coming years. Now, it's 2023. I remember those discussions like it's yesterday and we are still seeing those same discussions.
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It's really incredible how long it's been delayed. It's taken approximately my entire lifetime. An entire generation has gone by so everyone involved in the beginning must have retired long ago. It's like one of those medieval cathedrals that were finished by the great-grandchildren of the guys who built the foundation.
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Developing it is a good exercise, but it's not a good look for the project when the MIGs are still being dragged out in 2023
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