India is such lovely country geopolitically speaking, we chinese are really envy, not only Russia, europe now U.S is suck up with you to get some military contracts...while we EVIL chinese are still face military embargo.
Fact of the matter that the gap is fast narrowing makes the mouth water. We don't care about the embargo, it may slow us down, but it will not stop us or prevent us from trying (the more you push the ball into the water, the faster and higher it flies out).
The F-22 and F-35 are nothing to be envious about. Yes on paper spec it maybe the world's most advanced, but they are still limited in numbers, not combat tested and still grounded. So, realistically speaking, we are not so far behind them in terms of the 5th gen as they are practically still being beta tested meanwhile China, India and Russia are doing our alpha testing.
