The major risk of India's military proposing to purchase the Su-57 is the potential for information leakage due to the extensive use of Chinese chips.
According to a report by the Economic Times on July 10, as Putin is about to visit India, the call for both sides to reach an agreement on purchasing the Su-57E is growing louder. However, there are also different voices within the Indian military. In an interview, former Air Force official Arun Vatt mentioned that currently, as much as 60%~80% of the components in Russian defense products are made in China, and the Su-57 fighter jet is no exception. Such an aircraft may have no problem when fighting against non-Chinese forces, but what effect would it have against China? Could the Chinese chips have backdoors that leak or fail at critical moments? All these remain unknown.
It seems that India's fear of China has reached its late stage. If American products have backdoors, then so do Chinese ones? Then he might as well buy F-35s, which would not need to worry about not being allowed to fly when fighting with the Pakistani military, nor need authorization and information leakage would be fine!
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