and Tejas is, and will remain, a point defense jet, without the deep strike and load capacity of Rafale.I find it a bit odd that people who criticises Rafale procurement from the cost perspective (not judging , just saying at obvious face value) would want to accelerate LCA contracts and deliveries, even though a large part of that capex, about 30-40% for the engine alone (not sure), would be an outflow to another different foreign vendor.
The moral is if the Govt has one and only mindset & priority of local assembling foreign product so each side can get a cut out of taxpayers money via back channels, the cost side does not really matter. We taxpayers will fund both anyway but will never be in any position to influence. This mindset will come back in different word salad packaging to justify the case like now. Pvt vendors know the game for decades if not centuries.
Tejas Mk2 is even not a prototyp so far.


. We've learned our lessons and we taught them a serious lesson this time around. From 2019 to 2026, our jamming capabilities of all three forces has gone up by leaps and bounds. In fact, Pakistanis are not even in the same ballpark as us.

