Definite scope for us being senior partner in development of the next Brahmos (A?) and the S500 with the Russkies.
Get a jet engine from the Russians with complete in house manufacture. Build swarms of local fighter jets.
Pick up the Su57 over the exorbitant Rafale.
Just completely stop fking around now for our defensive offense with anything the West makes.
Till we are actually a military power atmanirbhar in our own right, have Russia 100% with us.
We cannot survive a near peer war or a wider world war (not necessarily great war WWI or WWII scale. But definitely Eurasian) without the protection of one of the two superpowers.
And America will never be that one. No matter how lovingly we suck.