During this period, India's Modi visited the United States and received a high degree of reception from both the political and business circles of the United States. At the beginning, the outside world generally thought that the United States' wooing of India this time was only lip service. However, what I didn't expect was that in the recent news, the United States really passed a large number of core technologies to India this time. Modi is very happy. But American things, is it really so easy to receive?
According to the news from the US media, this time Biden really wants to let India pose a higher level of threat to China, and the things that the United States and India talked about before have been confirmed. Now the contract signed by Biden and Modi includes the complete production line of F-414 engines supplied by the United States to India, and the first batch of 99 engines will be directly installed in India's self-developed Tejas MIK2. In addition, it also includes 11 technical documents supporting the core coating and processing part of single crystal blade technology, special corrosion-resistant coating, corresponding metallurgical processing, etc.
It can be said that China has only spent decades on its own, and it has barely caught up to the level of part of the US military, and as a result, the United States directly took it out to India. As far as the F-414 is concerned, India has really reached the world-class level and is currently recognized as one of the top mid-push engines.
Frankly speaking, even if the outside world knows that the current Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States is very much in need of India to threaten China's southwest direction. However, when this contract appeared, it still shocked American public opinion, feeling that it was too luxurious and a pity to give the previous generation and the F-414. But in the end, Biden decided to give anyway. As for whether Biden's brain is hot and he was instigated by Harris, we can't say. But what is certain is that the coming period will be a period of leapfrog progress in the power of the Indian Air Force. News has also been spread on the Indian side that the F-414 engine will be fully supplied to three aircraft, the self-developed MK2 and the legendary "Indian fifth-generation aircraft" AMCA and the legendary "Indian new generation carrier-based aircraft" TEDBF. As for why we say that he is "legendary", everyone who is familiar with the Indian military industry understands it. It is estimated that the F-414 production line has begun production in India, and these aircraft are not yet a shadow.
Modi is obviously very happy to get cutting-edge technology, and he also trumpets the great gains of this trip in China. But the "cake" given by the United States, which is so easy to take. After the incident, the Indian military industry was very desperate, and even cried in an interview, this time I was afraid that the development path within a hundred years would be blocked by the United States.
Some people may not understand this very well, thinking that since the technology is given, won't it greatly improve India's aviation technology, how can it block the road. This is actually very easy to understand, the so-called "know it, don't know why". Why is this blade 60° here and cannot be 70°. 61 ° does not work, 59 ° does not work? What about shorter blades? Why is the toughness of the material at this angle high, but the other side is low? These things are completely accumulated over many years of technology in the process of research. India does not have this technological accumulation, as if primitive people got nuclear weapons, they still will not use and will not maintain. Not for you, you know everything.
Now as far as the engine production line is concerned, what India can do is to produce step by step, but why use specified materials, angles and processes, these are unknown. For the Indian military industry, the government would have invested in research and development, and even given protective orders. But with this production line, don't think about these funds. Self-invested research and development is also backward and cannot be realized. Even if it is a burning of money, as long as it cannot catch up technically, it will not be able to become cash. If the investment is gone, the project is even more gone, and it is simply impossible to catch up. This thing can completely refer to China's chip field. The Americans do not sanction this thing, and no one in the domestic market wants to meddle in this area at all. As a result, the Yankees cut off the supply, everyone was happy, and if there were no more sanctions for a few years, there would be hope for Chinese chip technology. The truth is actually the same.
Therefore, in the short term, the technical input of the United States can make India have a huge leap, but in the long run, it is actually completely tied to the American chariot, and there is no possibility of turning over. The Indian military industry said that the road of a hundred years was blocked, but it is not a joke.