Sunday, August 03, 2025

India Says No to F-35 Fighter Jets from US

Donald Trump's latest flat 25% tariff on all Indian exports to the US seems to have rubbed New Delhi the wrong way, as the world's fourth largest economy has reportedly told US officials that India was no longer interested in buying its fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter jets.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 01:32 PM | 23 COMMENTS | permalink

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PM Mark Carney is re-considering Canada's enormous contract to purchase 88 F-35 fighters from the US and Moscow is said to have offered India, through Rostec and Sukhoi, a package deal for the new Su-57E fifth-generation stealth fighter and the Su-35M multirole aircraft. India increased oil purchases from Russia, an historic ally, to support Moscow's brutal invasion of Ukraine. Elon Musk tweeted his two cents in to the fracas: 'X'
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The world's largest armster can't dump its hardware?
Tres effin triste.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-02 06:35 AM

Bit of economic retaliation here, I think. More than a bit.

I'd say that this will make Trump angry, but he wakes up angry and stays that way.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-02 08:49 AM

Current India-Russia Partnerships in Joint Defence Manufacturing

Terrible idea to sell them one to begin with. They're S-400 operators.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-02 09:54 AM

Womp womp

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-02 12:31 PM

The world's largest armster can't dump its hardware?
Tres effin triste.

#1 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

No worries. We can just bomb bomb bomb somebody. Preferably someone brown. Bombing some brown people will make us happy again!

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-02 12:37 PM

Now that the nasty Libs are done for, we might even be able to start bombing black people... or at least getting back to enslaving them if they don't want to be Deported.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-02 03:08 PM

#6: compote.slate.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-02 03:18 PM

Ah, the Good Ol' Days!

When white men were the only men... and sheep were scared to death.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-02 03:34 PM

You can't bomb black people without "the libs" on board. Libya, Niger, Cameroon, Somalia.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-02 04:11 PM

Will Lockheed Martin get mad at Trump about this? Will Trump care?

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-08-03 03:02 PM

Will Lockheed Martin get mad at Trump about this? Will Trump care?
#10 | Posted by Whatsleft

You do understand India currently flies Russian planes right?

Any integration between the two and Russia gets Intel on the F-35.

You better hope Trump doesn't care.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-03 06:58 PM

Pres Trump's tariff policies seem to be changing how world trade works.

And, possibly, with the outcome he had hoped for with his transactional approach.

World trade seems to be moving to go around the US.

There's this ...

How BRICS is Silently Dismantling U.S. Dollar Dominance -- The Currency War No One's Talking About
medium.com

... BRICS isn't challenging America with bombs, but with banks. Here's how a new financial order is unfolding -- and why the U.S. is panicking behind closed doors. ...

We live in a world where power is often measured in armies, alliances, and military strength. But the most powerful weapon the United States has ever built isn't a missile " it's the U.S. dollar.

For decades, the dollar has been the world's default currency. Every nation, whether friend or foe, has needed dollars to trade oil, buy food, and stabilize its economy. It's the backbone of global trade, the ticket to international finance, and America's quiet source of global dominance.

But now, that system is under threat. And the challenge isn't coming from missiles or invasions " it's coming from BRICS.

The U.S. Dollar: America's Most Powerful Weapon (And Its Biggest Weakness) ...


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 11:47 PM

You better hope Trump doesn't care.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-03 06:58 PM | Reply | Flag:EH?

Or what?

taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,taco,?

You can't bomb black people without "the libs" on board. Libya, Niger, Cameroon, Somalia.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-02 04:11 PM | Reply | Flag:EH?

What "Libs" were on board?

Or are you just bristling because all Trumpanzee's orange flakes of stupid blew away in the wind... so you just have to say something... lemme guess... Clinton... no? ... Obama...?

P. S. every time "libs" side with anyone foreign... you say we are siding with terrorists... usally Muslims... because right you cl0wns are super afraid of Muslims.

#13 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-04 12:02 PM

FTA -Back in February, when Trump pitched F-35s to India, they were only meant as a stopgap measure given that the country's own fifth-generation fighters are ten years away.

So one, it was Trump that had the idea, why weren't you and the rest of the experts telling him it is stupid to start with.

#14 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-04 03:03 PM

FYI: Chinese-made stealth fighters from Pakistan performed well against French-made Rafales in the Indian AF during the recent Indo-Pakistani War that Dummkopf Trumpf wants a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping.

Link:

www.reuters.com

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-04 03:33 PM

What "Libs" were on board?

#13 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-04 12:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

Obama launched drone strikes on Somalia, Libya, Mali, and Niger alongside a massive expansion of JSOC and CIA ops.

Joe Biden launched drone strikes on Somalia, Niger, and Sahel. Or did Biden's staff do it? Hard to tell towards the end there when he was gibbering.

Trump launched drone strikes on Somalia, Libya, Niger, and Sahel.

Bombing Africans is bipartisan as it gets. That's the point you silly twit.

#16 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-04 05:39 PM

FYI: Chinese-made stealth fighters from Pakistan

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-04 03:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

The J-10 is not a stealth fighter. It's based off the Lavi, which is derived from the F-16.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-04 05:42 PM

The Lavi is Israeli, the US cancelled funding for that program, and the Israelis worked with China to complete the program. IAI engineers went to work at Chengdu Aircraft.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-04 05:43 PM

Or did Biden's staff do it?

You should do a better job of keeping up with your MAGA talking points.

Biden's presidency was Obama's 3rd term.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-04 05:48 PM

----------- child-raping idol says the F-35 is invisible.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-04 05:55 PM

Sometimes it's too easy.

#21 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-04 06:26 PM

I'm so glad to read that Israel is sharing US technology with China. Some ally, stealth fighters or not.

i.ytimg.com

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-04 06:34 PM

Taco believes that his bullying will not have a direct negative reciprocal effect.

How anyone thinks this yamsack is a jenius is a mystery.

#23 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-05 07:43 AM

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