Do YOU? This is about technology transfer, not the US telling the UK what to do with their JSFs.
No you are wrong here. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The UK’s problem is not about total technology transfer but about having enough technology transfer to be able to operate the aircraft. To use your Ferrari anaolgy while you wouldn’t expect the CAD files you would expect to be told what type of fuel and oil to use and the rating of the fuses!
Who said somebody did?
Well they way some of you Americans go on it would seem that you think you are doing the world a favour. The reality of it is that the US wants buyers to reduce the unit cost and so make it cheaper for the US to buy.
The UK can do whatever they want with them. Hell, if I buy a Ferrari I can do whatever I want with it but I’d be an idiot if I started whining that since I bought the car Ferrari needs to include the CAD files for every part of the car, the specs of all the parts, and a list of vendors. If I go buy and Intel CPU is Intel obligated to give me the complete design of the CPU in question? Sounds like you’re the one who needs to get a grip on reality.
I refer you to my point above. If the US is not going to give the buyers of their aircraft enough technology transfer to be able to operate the aircraft then they will find the buyers walking away. Again to use your analogy would someone in the US buy a Ferrari if it had to be sent back to Maranello every time it needed a service?
No kidding? Will there’s a revelation.
Your comments suggest that you don’t understand this as well as you think you do. I’m not even going to start to correct your English…
The UK wants full tech transfer which is outrageous seeing how they’re paying less than 5% of the developement costs. Norway wants to cherry pick which parts they get to make and are whining because the real world doesn’t work that way. Australia is the only one with a legitimate gripe. If it says in the contract that they would get exactly the same F-35 the US would be buying and they’re not getting it then they’ve got a right to be pissed. Does the contract in fact SAY they’d get EXACTLY the same outfit as the US?
Actually about 10% of the development costs. Get it right.
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