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I'm willing to bet they can do it with possible financial assistance from India (they need 5th gen fighters too) and generic chips from China.

P.S. Many mocked Russian munitions came with chips made by Texas Instruments among others, but thing is those chips are so damn generic you can get that from random shops in Shenzhen.



India already got burned.

Their previous orders have still not been delivered since they were sent to the frontlines in Ukraine.

I doubt India will want to repeat that.


Not many options for India. F-35 is also very risky and unclear delivery date, not to mention they also got burned by delayed F414 engines delivery for their Tejas.

With rumours of Pakistan getting J-35, 5th Gen fighters are necessity I guess.

Besides they can force Russian to manufacture them in India like Su-30 MKI.




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