Originally Posted by
dead_pan
Hmm not really, its a tactic as old as trade itself - lining up a customer or two before you have to fork out on the goods. If you've done any trade brokerage in your time you'd have done this all the time.
I'd have thought that this early model F16s would have been super-easy to acquire, and that Uncle Sam would have no problems with them moving between allies?
Hmmm not really, it’s dishonest marketing. Just because others do it doesn’t make it right. This has nothing to do with trade brokerage or the sentiment you speak of. They’ve been telling customers they’ve got F-16s, done deal, no problem, we will give you demonstrations - when it quite simply isn’t the case. For reference, see the brochure Duck Dodgers presented.
I think you’ve argued your own point in your second paragraph; you’d have thought it was easy to move the jets around. It’s not and that’s been the problem and they’ve been caught out.