Recently you must have read the news that India has commissioned INS Tamal. This is Multirol Freagade. This is the last freed made by Russia’s Shipyard, which is doing the Indian Navy Commission. Now no further frequency from Russia is planned to commission the Indian Navy. Earlier, 90 percent of the defense exports used to India from Russia. By 2009, it has increased to 76 percent and now it has fallen by 36 percent by 2024. Our dependence on Russia is decreasing. At the same time, India’s dependence from countries like France and America is increasing. The purpose behind this is that India did not want to have its defense dependence only on Russia only monopoly. Therefore, India started buying weapons from France and America too. India stopped commissioning the freedom from Russia, ending the dependence of the tank. Now India is also seen rejecting offers like Sukhoi 57. After which the questions are arising that if India does not take weapons from Russia, then what is India going to do next?
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Along with Sukhoi 57, Russia also offered source code, technology transfer and Sukhoi 35M offer to India. But many media reports are telling that India will not buy Sukhoi 57. India is reducing its dependence on its weapons from Russia or any country. India is trying to place its entire focus on the indigenous advanced medium fighter aircraft (AMCA) and do not buy any type of Fifth Generation Fighter Jet for some time. The Indian Air Force is not just the need of the Stealth Fighter – it is especially of two -seats, two -engine stealth fighters! It is important to remember that the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), which India and Russia had planned to develop together once. SU-57 was seen as a two-seat variant. However, India decided to get out of the FGFA project, as it had many important drawbacks – such as the fifth generation of the fifth generation in the aircraft, lack of essential features and its unproven operating capacity.
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It is said that India has never fully rejected the deal. Although it suspended participation in the FGFA project, later kept the option to buy the aircraft open. In July 2018, the then Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Business Standard, in February, Russians were told that they could proceed to develop fighter aircraft without us. But the option still remains, and we can go back later to buy a fighter aircraft.
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In 2019, Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa told the official newspaper of the Russian armed forces, Krasnaya Zwejda that India will decide on this after watching SU-57 and performing the aircraft in India by Russia. Since then, the SU-57 has been posted operating in conflict areas, and according to both Russian and Western reports, its performance has been commendable. In addition, concerns on lack of supercruze capacity are being removed.