India Says No to F-35 Fighter Jets from US

Sunday, August 03, 2025

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.

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Womp womp

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#6: compote.slate.com

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

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 | Reply

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 | Newsworthy 1

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

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