"We're also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters." This statement by United States President Donald Trump stood out when he addressed a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC, recently. The statement from the newly sworn-in President of the US comes against the backdrop of his larger push to get India to buy more American-made military equipment.
But is the F-35 - a fifth-generation fighter jet that is the mainstay of the US military and which has been dangled as a potential export to India for over two decades now - really on the table? How serious is Donald Trump about offering the F-35 to India?
Host Dev Goswami and defence expert Shiv Aroor take this questions head on in the latest episode of In Our Defence. The two talk about the iconic jet and its features, and explain how buying an F-35 means buying into an entire ecosystem of support equipment that could cost billions of dollars.
The two also talk about how officers and bureaucrats in the Indian military setup would be viewing Trump's statements and breakdown the various scenarios that New Delhi will have to contend with if an offer to buy F-35 was to actually materialise.
And finally, the two answer the big question: What would a potential acquisition of F-35s mean for India's fledgling ambitions of developing and manufacturing its own fighter-generation fighter.
This and more on the latest episode of In Our Defence. Tune in!
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