4 ms·
> and was a major reason both countries stopped buying American weapons systems and switched to Israeli and Chinese vendors respectively. India stopped buying
by unmole 3y ago
> and was a major reason both countries stopped buying American weapons systems and switched to Israeli and Chinese vendors respectively.
India stopped buying American weapons systems after the 1965 war. The Soviet Union was already supplying more than 80% of all weapons used by India even before the 1971 war.
- alephnerd 3y agoFrom extended family and/or family friends in the South Block - in the 90s, after the Cold War ended, the IAF began using DEC ALPHA machines and was in talks w/ the Clinton admin about importing AEW&C systems from Grumman to replace the juggard Hawker Sidleys. After the Pokhran-2 tests, the radar+AEW&C sales ended and DEC/Compaq cancelled federal Indian deals at the time, and India based Sales reps for American firms switched to IAI, Elbit, and Rafael which ended up winning IAF deals from then on (some corruption played a role as well in this at the beginning) A lot of the wing commanders from that era work as lobbyists for Israeli firms now and most of the cream of the IAF, DRDO, and SCL in the 1980s-90s work as mid-upper level Engineering or Product Management in the US now after leaving in the 90s-2000s like my parent's generation.