Washington is instead pushing New Delhi to buy its interceptors and missiles to counter the deal, while also offering up armed drones and possibly F-35 fighter jets.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
The friendship between US and India hasn’t even begun and now they are talking of sanction against India? India is soon going to world no 1 economy and it is inevitable as per Prof Kishore Mehbubani, let alone US imposing sanction on India, This is a prelude to American dictate against India in the years to come, India will be definitely taken hostage.
Neither the US nor India should be buying US. They should both be buying Sweden’s Grippen for an inexpensive yet formidable small fighter that can be deployed and scattered yet swarm with minimal ground support and maintenance overheads and with all the lethality (same armament suite) as the Rafale. The US may prefer to create a Grippen clone now that the F-35 is an acknowledged failure, but India cannot. India should simply take the SAAB offer to set up a Grippen line in India.
Biden’s Austin ducks and weaves: If only the Democrats had not continued the Clinton, Bush and Obama Cold War II score petty points over Trump by blasting Russia! Now the wriggles begin!
If the US wants to be considered for the 100 plus fighter deal, they will have to be much more flexible than with Turkey. If CAATSA is applied then India can simply repeat the Rafale deal or look at Russian aircraft
The American does a loud anti-China rhetoric in public but engaged in business closed door. India should not blindly jump in their bandwagon
The friendship between US and India hasn’t even begun and now they are talking of sanction against India? India is soon going to world no 1 economy and it is inevitable as per Prof Kishore Mehbubani, let alone US imposing sanction on India, This is a prelude to American dictate against India in the years to come, India will be definitely taken hostage.
Neither the US nor India should be buying US. They should both be buying Sweden’s Grippen for an inexpensive yet formidable small fighter that can be deployed and scattered yet swarm with minimal ground support and maintenance overheads and with all the lethality (same armament suite) as the Rafale. The US may prefer to create a Grippen clone now that the F-35 is an acknowledged failure, but India cannot. India should simply take the SAAB offer to set up a Grippen line in India.
Your publication is definitely short of proof readers… ‘US Secretary of State Lloyd Austin’… like seriously???!!!! Such a blunder!
Biden’s Austin ducks and weaves: If only the Democrats had not continued the Clinton, Bush and Obama Cold War II score petty points over Trump by blasting Russia! Now the wriggles begin!
If the US wants to be considered for the 100 plus fighter deal, they will have to be much more flexible than with Turkey. If CAATSA is applied then India can simply repeat the Rafale deal or look at Russian aircraft