As we all know, India have always wanted a stealth fighter, for the simple reason that if you look around them, China in the north is one of the only two countries in the world that has a combat stealth fighter.
Pakistan to the west has recently been saying that it has plans to purchase Chinese J-35 stealth fighters.
India as a great power in the East! There is no stealth fighter of its own, let alone China, and in the future it may even be inferior to Pakistan, which is unacceptable to the India!
So they want fifth-generation aircraft, they want fifth-generation aircraft too much. Russia and United States also saw the eagerness of the Indians to want fifth-generation aircraft, so they successively stretched out their black hands and planned to pull India into the water.
The first to stretch out his jet-black black hand was Russia, Russia wanted to borrow chickens and lay eggs, and use India money to study his own Su-57. India is also really stupid and has a lot of money, they really believe the nonsense of Russia and take out their own money. As a result, Russia's Su-57 research was developed, but it was not mass-produced at all.
Then the Indians wanted to buy United States F-35 drones.
The United States people are really very happy, after all, there is such a thing as arms sales, three parts military and seven points politics, whoever buys the United States weapons is equivalent to who pays the protection fee, and the person who pays the protection fee is a good friend of the United States, so after learning that India wants to purchase the F-35, the United States people are also very happy.
As a result, I did not expect that such a simple arms purchase was pulled to the limit by the two countries of United States and India.
The news first appeared in 2019, when India and United States engaged in a series of negotiations over the matter. Then in 2020, India said that the F-35 fighter did not meet the needs of India's army, so it planned to abandon the purchase of F-35 fighters, and after the India inspection, they found that the stealth coating of the F-35 fighter was really not good. It will fall off naturally in the extreme environment of high temperature and high humidity. And India is very unfortunate, it is a high temperature and high humidity climate.
Of course, some people say that India can build a thermostatic hangar.
Oh, thermostatic hangar, do you understand the India army or the India military understand the India army? The India military itself understands that the thermostatic hangar built by its own military engineering team is simply not usable. The key is that the India power grid is unstable, and maybe one day you will have a week-long blackout, so that you have nowhere to cry.
In addition, the performance of the F-35 fighter does not well meet the needs of the J-20 fighter, so the India also showed a negative attitude of not taking the initiative and not refusing to introduce the F-35.
However, this attitude has changed in 2023, when the mainland showed the J-31 carrier-based aircraft, considering that its predecessor J-35 fighter has now gradually matured, the Pakistan Air Force released a voice saying that it wants to buy this fighter, which is frightening to the Indians, if India does not equip stealth fighters as soon as possible to make the future they even Pakistan can not fight, in this case, don't think about what to deal with the J-20, it is more important to solve the problem of existence first. If it can't beat China, it doesn't matter, if it's not as good as Pakistan, Modi's chair should be hot.
Now it has directly changed from a seller's market to a buyer's market, and United States began to pinch India, saying that if India does not stop economic and trade exchanges with Russia, then they will never easily provide stealth fighters for India. And India is also really the head iron, although their strength is just like that, but they also really dare to offend the five permanent members. Of course, India's speed of admitting mistakes is also the highest in the world.
Then this matter was deadlocked for a year, and the stalemate reached this year, because the United States intended to let India contain China, so it took out its own F-35 diplomatic card, saying that United States has now changed its mind and is willing to let India buy F-35, as long as they can influence and contain China in the next time. But now it's a 180° turn of face by India, who say they never want to have a direct conflict with China over this matter. Second, India intends to independently develop fifth-generation aircraft. Therefore the United States F-35 fighters, they do not need it.
The reason why India is suddenly confident in the development of fifth-generation aircraft is mainly because the fifth-generation aircraft of Turkey and Korea have been unveiled one after another. Before China developed a fifth-generation aircraft, India felt that China could do it, so it followed up the study and found that the technical level of the Chinese was not covered. Now Turkey Korea the two countries have developed their own fifth-generation aircraft, which has given India people back confidence. Both Turkey and Korea can have their own fifth-generation aircraft, why can't India have it, or that sentence, it can't compare with China and you can't?
So the United States were released like this.
In general, the F-35 procurement incident between India and United States is like a romantic comedy pulling each other. You can read on, I think when the Indians find out that they can't develop stealth fighters, they will beg the United States to sell them planes again.