IE when you want to export stuff you are in direct competition with your partners, so you have to take turns who is going to market something somewhere.

How many Dassault Mercure airliners did France export in the 1970s? How many airliners did France export in total in the 1960s and 1970s?

Even if the Tiger is a remarkable platform in term of agility, it early versions proved often inadequate to combat with Fr soldering on the old Gazelle even in the most dangerous zone (see Lybia). And I am not even mentioning the inacceptable anemic sortie rate or the cost of spare.
Regarding the NH90, you have a system well known for being a decade late, that have quite inadequate exit or defensive geometry for an assault helo and with a heavy share of scandalous corrosion problem (that were discussed heavily here).

When it come to producing 2-seat helicopter gunships lke the Tiger, Apache, Mangusta, Mi-28, Rooivalk, etc it usually takes years before you can ever declare them a success. I’d say only Apache and AH-1 are the only aircraft of such type to have achieved later widespread sales and operational success. As it happens over 500 Tigers and NH-90s together have been delivered so it’s not a complete disaster. Plenty of A320 and A350 airliner sales to compensate.

Could be a “pick any, all, or none”, German F-104 attrition rates weren’t outrageous compared to other first time operators of high performance late ’50’s era fighters as you and others have pointed out.

A good example would the RAAF Mirage III – 36% losses.

http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/3a3%20losses.htm

http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/482493-raaf-mirage-3-losses.html

Source:
FowNews.com

What website have you actually linked to – it’s not telling me a whole lot about the catapult system on the USS Gerald Ford.

Has your account been hacked?

The demo itself is not particularly impressive, I was hoping the pilot would be more aggressive.

Where did you get that idea – I thought the pilot was being aggressive enough – he was certainly doing a lot of hif´gh speed turn rates pulling a lot of G.

Not sure how accurate:

Kh-58USh: range 250km – accurate?

I wouldn’t rely on Youtube videos of airshows to assess the combat capabilities of aircraft. Also the F-15E is a lot lighter than the Su-35S – T/W ratio should be better?

The real problem is lack of political will and funding.. Japan was more than willing to buy some F-22s for say $150mil a pop in 2008, but they would be hesitant to spend ~$60 billion just to learn how to design and make something comparable, in order to finally get like 100 pieces, without any export potential.. Such investment simply doesn’t make sense. There is only as much as you can do with a defense budget totaling $41 bil annually.

The same logic could also apply to the PAK FA – the Russian government didn’t hesitate.