>>8775830I've been following India's MRCA competition. They've eliminated the MiG-35 (it performed pretty badly at the flight trials and there were engine and radar issues, they were just not as high performance as the other contestants), the F/A-18E and F-16IN were considered too 'old' and at the end of their development cycle (also India was secretly worried that they might get hit by another US embargo like in the 90s, some Indian higher ups still hold a grudge) and the Gripen NG was eliminated because well... fuck it hasn't even been built yet, Indians were quiet unhappy that Sweden didn't have an actual NG Gripen ready for the flight trials last year (they sent a regular Gripen).
Eurofighter is a better FIGHTER than the Rafale but it did not perform very well in some of the bombing tests, the Rafale on the other hand has a smaller radar but it is a better all around MULTI-role fighter