What American worker is losing their job here? We’re taking their money and letting them build a 1970s era plane. And newsflash, because we let them have this, they’ve been buying 10’s of billions of dollars worth of AMERICAN MADE military hardware with an almost certainty of a lot more to come.
Not "letting them build" - teaching them to build, giving them the technology and manufacturing methods for a seventies era aircraft that is still among the world's elite. Make no mistake, establishing a complete aircraft production line in India, regardless of the CURRENT aircraft being produced, is a very large step toward India taking over the aerospace industry.
Unlike you and your DC morons, I worked in Advanced Manufacturing at Lockheed for eleven years, and it takes very skilled specialized production workers to build aircraft, especially fighters. Once they have the skills and a developed workforce, do you not think that they will undercut US aerospace companies?