Actually I just wondered if they just want to give the Chinese a license to manufacture, we can then just by the cheap Chinese models
Presuming the Chinese honey pots did a complete job of course in getting the plans.
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On a serious note.
Has anyone done any sort of statistics on historical fighter R&D and roll outs, accidents, cost overruns, time over runs. Would be a good comparison. As long as its done on a relative term. Its all well and good to pull headlines out of newspapers to support a positive or negative viewpoint, but that can be misleading.