Why didn't India ever buy Panavia Tornado jets?

At the time the Tornado was offered to India (somewhere in the early eighties), the IAF was obsessed with finding a counter to the F-16 which was being offered to Pakistan. The F-16 was a frightening proposition being far more capable than any fighter in service with the IAF. read more

The Tornado F.3 was retired because it was replaced by the Typhoon in the air defence role; the Tornado GR.4 is still in service and is lobbing laser-guided gift packages at Daesh targets in Iraq and Syria (Op SHADER) at the moment. The Harrier GR.9s were retired for two reasons. read more