Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Why is no one buying Russian fighter jets anymore?" video.

  1. Russia's biggest export customers by far were China and India. China no longer needs to import fighters from anybody else, and India is working very hard to get into that same position. Not to mention, India has always bought from anybody who's selling, rather than locking themselves into eastern or western hardware. Meaning that any time they look for a new fighter that, India has solicited bids from the US, Britain, France, Russia, and Sweden, and picked whichever jet they thought was the best deal. And in their most recent big contract, the Dassault Rafale beat out the MiG-35. If the MRCA competition had gone differently (and faced just as many delays and legal challenges afterward), Russia would've been exporting dozens (at least) of MiG-35s to India this decade.
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  2.  @zeljkopopovic2662  Imagine selling China military hardware and then being surprised that they start making bootleg copies of it.
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  3. Eh. Russia makes fighter jets that look good, but I'd even buy Chinese before I'd buy Russian.
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  4. India dropped that deal and is now looking to develop their own 5th-gen fighter (the "Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft") without Russian help. Will they succeed? Who knows, it's an incredibly ambitious goal. And India doesn't always meet their ambitious goals. But respect to them for giving it a go. They already have the Su-57 as an example of what not to do.
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