India is probably closer to canceling the whole thing than bragging about buying some Rooskie Migs to land on it.
Russia has no fixed wing carrier experience. The Gorshkov was a decommissioned cruiser now in retrofit for about 8 years.
The whole deal looks like a couple of Defense Departments rip off.
yitbos
Makes me kinda wish that the Kitty Hawk being offered to India were true. And now India opens its multirole combat aircraft bidding to western companies (Boeing, Lockheed, Dassault, Saab) is quite fitting. If the Kitty sale/transfer were true. then India would be in a position to tell the Russians enough. What would be then next, Hindustan reverse engineering the Flanker? Don’t discount it, it is well within their capabilities.