F-35 Lightning II:- Does India Really Want the American-Built Fighter Jet

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) is considering the possibility of an order for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, according to sources in the Ministry of Defence. With deliberations at an early stage, it is understood the IAF will be writing to ask for more information on the fifth generation fighter.

The F-35 Lightning II is a 5th Generation fighter, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, fully fused sensor information, network-enabled operations and advanced sustainment with the most powerful and comprehensive integrated sensor package of any fighter aircraft in history. The F-35’s advanced stealth allows pilots to penetrate areas without being detected by radars that legacy fighters cannot evade.

If we take the impossibility aside that F-35 can’t be delivered because numerous reasons to India, then still F-35 is not an option for India.

Why?

Look, the F-35 is a pretty good fighter jet, it doesn’t matter how much we all criticize it, a plane that has a 20 + years of research and development behind and despite the fact that it still can’t perform 60 % of the expectations put on it, it will evolve with time and replace most of the 4th generation fighters in the coming decade in numerous airforces.

But you have to keep it mind that defence purchases are not made based on ‘’how pretty or beautiful or outbreaking’’ a plane is, instead every single airforce calculates it’s own needs and threat perceptions, defence budgets.

Is it possible that India can do this with the F-35?

Neither this plane is build for that purpose, nor you can order with a tight budget of India 1,000 + F-35s in the coming years.

The Indian airforce is building it’s structure about to guard the borders via air on such a large mass and second, being able to protect these borders with enough fighter jets against the incoming enemy fighters.

For what the F-35 is build?

Obviously it’s advertised from the developer and the US establishment as a fighter jet which can do almost everything, the mulit-role fighter jet of the future, but in fact, most of these capabilities were lost with the time of development for one single important purpose: deep strike capability.









(courtesy : defence aviation post)
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