“Still workers are concerned.”
Our whole nation should be concerned. Why are we even considering this extortion. Per one of your own past articles, they want to co-produce jet engines too. Why in hell are we considering shoehorning their whole aerospace industry. That includes years of material science and development of Hastelloy, the various grades of Inconel, etc. The material properties information alone would move their industry ahead by decades. Absolute stupidity and not in the interest of our nation.
The answer of course is China. India as an ally against China would finally contain that growing beast. India isn’t quite up to the task now but getting them a modern air force is a good start. Moving the F-16 plant is a good deal, we are or are about to stop accepting new ones for us and the choice was build them there or not build them at all. India would have gone to a competitor.
Now I don’t know about the engine’s, but if it is the case they would have to bite the bullet and pay a ridiculous price for native built engines’ as they wont have an economy of scale there. It’s also a separate deal them the frames