Originally Posted by
Donkey497
.......... So, if the F16 line moves to India from Fort Worth, does that mean a branch of the US military accepting a front line aircraft being manufactured outside of the continental US by a country which has previous in working with the Former USSR, even as an attrition replacement?
Also, I don't see how that gels with "the Donald"'s bringing jobs back to America rhetoric. I can't see that laying off large numbers of skilled Texan taxpayers in favour of a relatively small contract for Lockheed being a
PR coup.
The last Texas built F-16 flew in November 2017 - GD have been planning a two year break in production to move the line to S Carolina due to lack of sales anyway. Without a major order it's pretty much down to producing spares and attrition frames only. Not bad when you think they've been building them for +45 years.
Moving the line to India would be a great coup for the USA and GD TBH
As for "working with the former USSR" I really dont think the Russians would learn a lot from an Indian F-16.........