Peter Suciu
It is highly unlikely that India will ever adopt the F-35 Lightning II, a fifth-generation multirole jet fighter—but that will not be for want of trying on America’s part. Last year, in a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump pitched US military hardware to the South Asian nation—now the world’s largest by population.
“We’ll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars. We’re also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters,” Trump said during a joint news conference with Modi. Even then, the barriers seemed nearly impossible to overcome. New Delhi maintains close ties with Moscow and remains the largest buyer of Russian military hardware. This includes the S-400 Triumf air defense system—the same anti-aircraft platform that led to Turkey’s expulsion from the program during Trump’s first term.
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