What you just said doesn’t make any sense.
The Americans doesn’t want us to ” suck ” at battle.
Not letting us place our own systems because they don’t want us to do a better use with them doesn’t make any sense.
there is 1 good reason for the US to disallow us to put israeli systems.
They know that If they wll agree, we have now few years to start and develop the best systems we can, to put on this new fighter, and those systems will be competition to their’s.
I didn’t said ALL israel’s Avionics systems are better than the US’s! don’t get me wrong!
I said, and perfectly explained myself, that Israel make SPECIFIC systems, exacly for what you said – our special needs.
But there is no such thing as ” Special needs “, using this combanation is other word for ” Our’s better, and we want that, and not yours “, thats simple as that.
Israel make specific systems for our assest, while the US is making thousands of systems for all kind of stuff, which some of them they doesn’t even use.
When you put alot of work on a small number of projects, you get a more quality project.
When you put small number of work on each project, while having thousands of them, you get less quality, thats how it works.
Good example – the F-16I Radar,
we wanted to put our own, which in any way you look at it, every detail in the Elta radar was better than the AGP-68 we finally have on our F-16I, its all because of competition, and money.
good example for Israel’s success – India, and specially the SU-30MKI, and the missiles program we have with them.
You can take the AH-64D of Israel, and the AH-64D of the US Army, and see how different they are, and how much the Israeli version is better.
The Americans don’t really care how well we’ll do in battle – what they want is to sell more of their systems and earn more money – that’s why this problem exists.
While the homegrown Israeli systems might turn out better than the original American systems, and might have some export potential, you can count on the Americans to make sure that we won’t be able to upgrade other countries’ F-35s.
Your belief that the less you produce the better the product is is not always true. A better system is a better system, and it doesn’t matter if you produce a 100 of a 1000 pieces of it. A better system is created by the combination of brain and money. The US got more brains than us, many of them are better that our’s, and certainly have much, much more money than we do. This usually creates better systems.
Israel’s secret isn’t creating better systems – it’s about creating systems which are better for us. “Special needs” do exist – and it’s not a new invention. For example, after operating the Mirage IIICJ, Israel decided that it wants its own special version of the plane, the Mirage V. Because the weather in the Middle East is usually clear, Israel decided to remove the Mirage III’s radar, and put extra fuel in the plane instead. This is just one example for special needs. But while that kind of plane might be better for Israel, it would be worse than the Mirage III for almost all of the other customers of the Mirage.
Today for example, some of the countries around us use American made systems. If an Israeli F-35 will ever meet an Egyptian F-35 during a dogfight, and they’ll both have the same EW systems, for example, it will be much harder for any of the pilots to shoot the other guy down. But if the Israeli plane will have other EW systems, he’ll have an advantage – not only since the Israeli systems could be better, they’ll just be different, and the other pilot won’t know exactly how they work.
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