Originally Posted by
ORAC
When it comes to designing a 6th Gen CTOL FJ expertise in designing the lift fan for a STOVL engine isn’t exactly top of the essential criteria.
Which is why RR is working away with MHI on a new engine including things such as E2SG, Leonardo on a next generation radar - without US partnership etc.
I think there is a general feeling in both Europe, Japan and elsewhere that we have lost our own expertise and become too dependent on US technology.
because the technology gets ever more expensive and the willingness to buy the eventual (expensive) kit decreases at the same time?
Most non-US countries are very rapidly heading towards Augustine's famous single fighterLaw (#16) - which he calculated would happen in 2054.....................