the indians like to scratch their own balls the way we like to
scratch ours, both sides are just as "hao lian", just read some of
their online forums and newspapers and you'll know what i mean,
everyone else is second rate to them, Pakistan, the US, and
everyone else included, at the exercise involving the US, not all
US units were frontline units, air national guards were included
(second rate aircraft, part time pilots), i belive the theory going
around that the US purposely did so to gain more support for the F
22 raptor, with a lot of planned plane purchases being slashed at
that time, and remember, the US didn't send any strike eagles nor
any MSIP improved C eagles with improved radars there, so BVR with
flankers was suicide, as expected, not did they have any helmut
mounted cueing systems then, nor off bore-sight missiles, so basic
fighter manouvers would be won by the indians, as expected.
the same thing is played out whenever the US navy play with the
israelis too, same problem, close in dogfights, the US didn't have
any off boresight missiles then. BUT they do now, the AIM-9X off
boresight missile is coming into service, together with a helmut
mounted stare and shoot system based on the Elbit model, would the
score be the same today, had the americans sent their best ? ... i
don't think so ...
we probably faced the same constraints too i believe, is our score
really that bad ? ... i don't think so ... even if it was ... we
probably didn't flash our latest stuff .... and i think it's good
policy to keep some capabilities to ourselves, allies or otherwise
...
