In recent days, a pound of information has detonated the international arms market — india has officially submitted to the french company dasso a letter of intent for the purchase of 114 “winds” fighters, totalling $34 billion. This was not only the largest single purchase order in india's history, but also the first time that “wind” had established complete production lines outside france, with a planned national production rate of more than 50 per cent。
The total number of “winds” ordered by the indian air force and navy will thus reach 176, making india the country with the largest “winds” outside france。
However, just a year ago, on may 7, 2025, the indian air force's “winds” just went through the inhuman waterloo — in the air war in indian-pakistan kashmir, the pakistan air force shot down six indian military aircraft, including four “winds” with a zero-war-damaged performance, using chinese-made stabbing-10ce. Even more so, the revised data from the follow-up survey show that as many as 11 indian warplanes were actually lost that day。
What kind of “retributive consumption” is this? What makes the world even more incomprehensible is why the 10ces have won and the world has not been able to sell, and the wind has failed to sell
The wind is swollen and swollen, and the orders are piled up. Mountain
Don't think the wind just sold it to the indian family. By the beginning of 2026, the cumulative total number of “winds” confirmed orders had reached 533, with a backlog of 220 orders, with exporting countries covering nearly 10 countries, including india, egypt, qatar, greece, croatia, serbia, the united arab emirates and indonesia, with total trade exceeding $52. 7 billion。
Indonesia had just held a high-profile “winding” assembly ceremony in may 2026, after prior indications that indonesia had intended to procure 10c and eventually opted for a “lost man”. Egypt and qatar, in the middle east, are the craziest scavengers, and the united arab emirates has destroyed 14 billion euros for 80 purchases alone。
As a country with an annual military expenditure of less than 1 billion euros, serbia has paid 3 billion euros to purchase 12 “winds”. Even in viet nam, there is a message that “a leap forward” is being considered for the introduction of “winds”。
This luxurious list of orders is nothing like the treatment of a losing machine that has just been beaten down。
Declaring the “submarine rules” of military trade: in the field of arms, winning and losing is never a real battle
The heat of the wind seems incredible, but it is a perfect reflection of the bottom logic of the arms trade — in the international military and trade market, it is never the performance data of the air war simulators that determine the victory, but rather the positions of the great powers, the affiliation of the political blocs, and a sophisticated set of “system-bound” strategies。
The first is political standing. For the vast majority of small and medium-sized countries, the acquisition of advanced aircraft is not a car, but rather a major political decision that concerns national security and is essentially a “selection team” in the game pattern of large nations。
The central cause of indonesia's abandonment of the “winds” of the 10th is not the performance of the warplanes, but the difficulty of the political pressure of the united states. The u. S. Direct offering of the sanctions against the u. S. Enemy act resulted in the rapid removal of the indonesian defense chief's “departure pilot training” movement on social media。
The situation in egypt was the same — egypt had tried to fly 10c on the ground in the early years, and its defence minister had been driving “a straight call” and had even prepared his order. However, the united states used economic aid and loan concessions as bait, while threatening to impose sanctions, which led egypt to abandon the strangulation of the 10-c to the “winds”。
More critically, their military systems have long been incorporated into the “hegemonic biosphere” of the united states. Seventy percent of the egyptian air force is united states-made and is dependent on united states military assistance each year. Replacement with medium-sized equipment would mean a complete reversal of the entire maintenance, command, data chain and ammunition system. It could also face sanctions to cut off the supply of spare parts — and this “replacement cost” is well above the book price of 10c。
And the advantage of the wind is precisely that it comes from a member of the french-western camp, which ensures that neither the dilemma of being caught in the neck nor the red line of us sanctions is touched. The choice of the “wind” rather than the “shattering-10” is the “security card” of a country that touches a rock crossing in the horns of a large country – one that can escape us-style restraints without completely provoking the west。
The second is a sophisticated french sales strategy. There was a stark contrast with china's “false sales” — 10 models on the air show in paris were not flying, and potential buyers had no chance of touching the lever; while french president marlon personally gave the “winds” station to the client, dasso, who tried to take a ride and even promised “to buy a plane to deliver a truck gun”。
Faced with the threat that indonesia might sign a demolition-10 order, france, dasso, lowered its prices overnight by buying 12 “shows” for 12 “cesar” trucks. This “arms + accessories + sweet” package marketing has significantly reduced the psychological burden on clients and the procurement threshold。
