Friends and neighbors,
Regarding export sales of the F-22: Israel as well as Japan wants F-22's and F-35's with no restrictions. This is an issue. The DoD isn't entirely confident that the latter day Israelites or perhaps the Japanese wouldn't try to reverse engineer and perhaps re-sell some highly classified technologies if they got these aircraft. (Well, at least the Japanese pay for their American military equipment.)
Wwhat does this have to do with F-22 for UK or Australia? Selling F-22's to UK or Aus. would set a precedent for overseas F-22 sales, thereby increasing pressure from the aforesaid countries to get F-22's also.
Note to all Ppruners: thius is the 2nd time I have posted sentiments such as these on pprune.org. The first such post mysteriously disappeared. Let's see what happens to this one.