User Interest makes the product materialize, ready and delivered inspite of MoD baboons, Govt chindigiri, no budget and an assortment of factors including the aforementioned union-maxxxing lazy DPSU babooze and workers, pic very related, most of everything in the pic actually
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User Interest in the neighboring pig-sty leads to 150 of the below cheapo and mostly-Chinese maal flying in their Airforce and lobbing PL-15s, it could be cancelled and in-place 40 F-16 wunderwaffe could be purchased but they decided against it because their priorities were right
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User disinterest makes moon and mars trials, shifting goal posts GSQRs, taking forever to sign a contract and then it turns out the engine vendor has shut down his plant and so the engines are delayed among other things.
In the end you win and the Govt is forced to import a small amount of very expensive French planes to stop the dropping numbers because...
You can sell your soul to the

globohomo

in exchange for some wunderwaffe package of F-16, F-15, E-7 and F-35 but they will not let you use it against your adversaries.
Your "potent weapons" will only be good for Air Shows and e-lafdas over theoretical wars with China.
Ask Ukraine about how much mujra the puppet regime there has to do over using the weapons donated by it's patrons to attack certain Russian locations, there was a lot of drama over ATACMS, Storm Shadow and Taurus missile usage
, inspite of all it's patrons hating Russia and wanting Putin to be removed
Ask yourself why the missiles and bombs used in Op Sindoor and now Balakot just happen to be French, Israeli or Russian/Domestic and not of the wunderwaffe selling "globohomo" ?
What use are such potent weapons when you have to take permission from the manufacturing

country

to use them or give an explanation afterwards?
Anyway don't worry, I have faith in the intended users of Tejas, MWF and AMCA that we will be forced to import F-35 within the next decade of 2030-2040.