Imagegear,
ALL economies are going to be in very much the same boat and all will have a need to boost and stimulate their economies, and Government infrastructure and other spending are going to be key to that, so yes, I think there will be the resources available for this sort of spend internationally.
A Van,
HOTOL was not a fighter project in any shape or form. It was a relatively cheap reusable method for putting satellites in orbit. Apart from the US Space Shuttle none of the competing schemes went through to production. BAE Systems in their British Aerospace guise of the time DID have a very active stealth next generation fighter project that was did make substantial progress and it was this that bought the UK into the only tier 1 presence on the Joint Strike Fighter all the way from initial concept through design selection through to production.