Comments by "红火树 RedFireTree" (@firetree2007) on "Arms Sales: US stays top exporter while India amid biggest importers| Military| Latest English News|" video.

there are several factors that cannot be imaginable in China, the biggest one that does not like made in India arms is not foreign country, but India military itself, IAF would reject Tejas and Army does not like Arjun tanks., although they have their good reasons, like poor quality, low capability and very high pricing, and NOR kick backs (not as high as they can get from importing foreign arms), at the same time, same for India weapon makers, the price they put on the weapons are much higher than what military can directly buy from other countries (an example is Su-30MKI, directly from Russia is about $48 million a piece, but from HAL is about $70 M a piece. same for Tejas, it originally asked for $83 M, almost as same as US's F 35 to and Rafale, same for Arjun tank MK 1A, with $7 M a pieces compare to T90s about $2-3 M a piece). This situation will remain without ending can be seen near, therefore India will remain the top weapon importer in the world for a very long time
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Indians do not realize that this kind dependent on importing weapons for national security is not reliable and has put India in great danger. In names India has Su-30 MKI and Rafale and importing military drones from US, sees India has everything needed, however, weapon will be destroyed in war and for India to replace them needs money and time but the war (enemy) will not wait. For Su-30 MKI, India has total 275, and with 35 Rafale, vs China similar level jet fighter over 1300 (claim China weapon quality not good is just your opinion not fact). As for military drone, India will spend $3 billion for 30 US drones, well China has over 1300 military drone and can make more in war.
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the danger for India is a lot of Indians like this kind total BS, totally hopeless, for example, it cannot explain why India wants to spend $5 billion of buying Russia's "JUNK" S400 despite facing the risk of US sanction for this deal.
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Indians said this for the past at least 40 yrs, however, there will always be "next 10 yrs", so they can keep saying it every year, haha :))
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In October, the Global Hunger Index ranked India 94 out of 107 countries. Indians on average experienced more hunger and malnutrition than Nepalis, Bangladeshi or Pakistanis.
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Stockholm, 27 January 2020) New research from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) suggests that China is the second-largest arms producer in the world, behind the United States but ahead of Russia. This research represents the most comprehensive picture of Chinese companies’ weapons production to date.
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