Brief by Shorts91NewsDesk / 12:52am on 15 Feb 2025,Saturday India Global
India is giving the United States' offer to sell F-35 fighter planes very serious consideration, ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi met United States President Donald Trump. The Indian Air Force has plans to modernize, but there are concerns regarding logistic complexities, very high price, and delay due to F-35’s global supply chain and backlogs. The indigenous Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project by India also indicates its quest for defence technological independence. An Indian defence procurement dilemma has always been finding an equilibrium between operational requirements over the near term versus strategic independence over the longer term.
