(sigh) Why not just make our own? I can’t stand the fact that we have the capability to do these things, but choose to give our money to other countries instead of investing in our own manufacturing industries. It all counts towards “military spending”, so why not spend it here?
Because making a fighter jet is a more than a decade long undertaking with existing military industrial design, manufacturing, and test infrastructure.
Making one from scratch without the existing IP and infrastructure is an even larger and more expensive task.
It takes the cost (out-my-ass example) from 30 million per jet with a 3 year lead time, to 150 million per jet with a 15 year lead time with an unproven, likely worse, aircraft. And if they are trying to protect themselves from close neighbors’ current trajectory turning hostile, they probably don’t have 15 years.
Saabs offering includes manufacturing it in Canada. It is complicated technology and you might get humans educated in this field so you could make your own next time.
(sigh) Why not just make our own? I can’t stand the fact that we have the capability to do these things, but choose to give our money to other countries instead of investing in our own manufacturing industries. It all counts towards “military spending”, so why not spend it here?
Because making a fighter jet is a more than a decade long undertaking with existing military industrial design, manufacturing, and test infrastructure.
Making one from scratch without the existing IP and infrastructure is an even larger and more expensive task.
It takes the cost (out-my-ass example) from 30 million per jet with a 3 year lead time, to 150 million per jet with a 15 year lead time with an unproven, likely worse, aircraft. And if they are trying to protect themselves from close neighbors’ current trajectory turning hostile, they probably don’t have 15 years.
Saabs offering includes manufacturing it in Canada. It is complicated technology and you might get humans educated in this field so you could make your own next time.