>>63954799
^This,
>>63931934
India's only hope to become a non third world dump is to continue to do trade with the West so they can gradually climb up the quality of life ladder. Pershing delusions of grandeur and pissing off the US EU or Japan would almost certainly doom them to decades of continued poverty.
The best India can hope for in regards to an independent air force now is just copy ancient designs like the F-14 and Migs while also capping their speed so the pot metal air frames don't wear out as fast and then just mass produce them to the point where losing a couple hundred a days is trivial and doesn't matter.