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IDK if IAF said it doesn't wan't AMCA anymore. I don't think so. ADA doesn't have anything better.Better just export any subsystems of the AMCA or provide tech consultancy to countries wanting to build stealth fighters.
A flying prototype of AMCA should be built and flown, and nice videos must be made about this so as to generate interests in foreign markets.
IAF won't buy AMCA, they are set on F-35 now, so there is no point attempting to build a whole ass fighter that even the parent airforce won't buy, and if they don't it makes foreign sales even more difficult
Which is why subsystem exports + tech consultancy for stealth fighter development.
IAF is looking for few squads of something as stopgap for next 10yrs till AMCA gets inducted, that's the public news.
I don't think we can absorb too many F-35 immediately, technically or financially, bcoz its architecture, manufacturing, maintenance is too sophisticated.
And bcoz it is very S/w defined jet, so there is concern about lockable features, strict control, backdoors, etc, integration with other weapons & network.
AMCA prototype should fly, it'll give enormous data, learning, confidence.Alternatively this project can be cancelled, any IP, designs, documents and sub system prototypes can be sold to private sector.
But i think it needs to be pumped up.
Theoretically R&D never stops growing. Some people say that ADA has finalized its MK1/IOC model & working on FOC/MK2 model, but difference is not known clearly.