the energy wasted on jet trainers during the late 1970s and 1980s (S211, IAR99, Squalus, C101, that Cessna thing, Iryda)
IMO you can’t put all those together
OK, Squalus, Cessna and Iryda died as prototypes, but the others not.
IAR-99 is in service with the Romanian AF for almost 20 years now, doing what it was intended to do, so it exitence is perfectly justified. Export market was not a priority when it was designed, it came as an afterthought in the 90’s.
S211 was in service with Haiti, and still is with Philipines and Singapore
C101 is used by Spain, Jordan, Honduras, Chile.
At least for the latter two energy seems not to be wasted – unless you wanted to see only Hawks/Alpha Jets on one side of the Iron Courtain and L-39s on the other 😀
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