Mission Impossible: Why Most Militaries Don’t Build Their Own Jet Fighters

SOURCE: NATIONAL INTEREST Recently, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter once again shot down South Korea’s request to transfer four key technologies for that country’s KF-X “indigenous” fighter project. The United States’ refusal to transfer those technologies highlights a fundamental problem with developing a homegrown fighter—most nations don’t have the technology to develop a jet on […]

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