You would think that the Israelis, being as ingenious as they tend to be, would have developed and manufactured an aircraft far superior to anything they could purchase.
What and pay retail like a schmuck? I would do just what they are doing, like up for the proven product. I don’t think even Obama can mess up the fact our aircraft are the envy of the world. I support a strong Israel, especially when they can’t trust our POTUS anymore than we can.
In the F-35I, they will be incorporating their own technology into the F-35. This includes a 600 gallon tanks and missiles
They must lack the very expensive infrastructure required to build high tech fighter jets. Such as exotic metal alloys, very high tech computer controlled machining centers, sophisticated testing facilities for aerodynamics and structural strength of various aircraft components, vast amount of engineers and numerical control programmers etc.
Only large countries such as USA, Russia, China, India etc can dedicate so many monetary and human resource skills.
You would think that the Israelis, being as ingenious as they tend to be, would have developed and manufactured an aircraft far superior to anything they could purchase.
They used to rip out the electronics and put in their own. Not sure if they still do it.