My contention all along was that the Libyan operation was actually a weapons demonstration for the Indian MMRCA competition.
And what would have happened if the Indian government junked the whole tender and went in for a direct purchase of US aircraft!! That’s still not impossible if price negotiations collapse.
While there was a indeed a more than subtle marketing angle to operations in Libya, I don’t think any realistic air force (India/Japan etc) would read too much into operations against a rusty Soviet era military.
Mine too.