India’s next fighter decision is usually described as a contest between two aircraft. On one side is the Rafale F4 pathway: an upgraded French 4.5-generation combat system built around a fighter family the Indian Air Force already operates in earlier Rafale standards, and which India has also selected in naval form for the Indian Navy. On the other hand is Russia’s Su-57E, marketed as a fifth-generation stealth fighter and publicly offered to India with the possibility of dee

The Indian Air Force (IAF), formed in 1932 as the Royal Indian Air Force, has relentlessly secured India’s skies since then. It is the...

Major military decisions and foreign defence deals by India happen by keeping two things in mind.