Sanctions like this can often have the effect of making alternatives, which wouldn’t otherwise have been viable, a realistic proposition
History has proven this bit to be true, but regarding commercial aviation...
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krismiler
If using US sourced components in aircraft leaves foreign manufacturers vulnerable to restrictions on who they can sell to, they may consider looking elsewhere...
...If the French, Chinese and Russians got together, within a few years American parts might not be needed at all.
France (and Germany) are part of agreement regimes regarding technology exports in aerospace which includes commercial aircraft. Aside from that inconvenience, avionics and propulsion tech nearly always involves UK or US expertise. Although...
The Russians (and the Chinese) are building commercial transports and the world is free to buy them, but I don't hear much about who's standing on the queue at the moment.