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I think India should focus on AMCA with an all-hands-on deck approach with money not being an object. If needed, spend 8-10% of GDP on defense until we get a reliable engine and a FGFA. In the interim, focus on AAD and precision guided missiles/bombs including hypersonic. This will require us to have a huge stockpile of all sorts of cruise missiles and glide bombs for which we have indigenous capacity. The goal should be rendering the airfields and infrastructure to waste within the first few hours of a conflict. The airfields/infra are static and we should be able to strike them with high precision. This will ground PAF regardless of the generation of their aircrafts. Then we can use our 4.5 gen aircrafts to strike with impunity.
As a second step, build of Tejas variants in numbers, add some additional Rafales and Su30MKI. This should keep us relatively secure until we get AMCA flying. Assuming we pump up the numbers, with 200+ Tejas, 300+ flankers and 100+ Rafales, there is nothing we can't defend. Drones and Bramos & Co. can be the tip of the spear until AMCA!
As a second step, build of Tejas variants in numbers, add some additional Rafales and Su30MKI. This should keep us relatively secure until we get AMCA flying. Assuming we pump up the numbers, with 200+ Tejas, 300+ flankers and 100+ Rafales, there is nothing we can't defend. Drones and Bramos & Co. can be the tip of the spear until AMCA!