Selling F-35s to the Indians would be a gold mine for LM. India doesn’t have the aerospace tech to license assemble( or even maintain) these aircrafts. Just the post sale support contracts would be worth 10s of billions.
Here comes the Chicom troll again. How can you have technology to license build when you don’t get it from manufacturers. Unless if you are from the PRC, where espionage is the norm.
And even the glorious PLA is so bad at it that their air force doesn’t want anything to do with their ripped off J-11s.