Boeing’s offering Silent Hornets to Hornet/Super Hornet operators Australia and Canada.
Canada flying the Hornet will not help them fly the Super Hornet. Infrastructure is different, engines are different, avionics, radar, handling, etc are different.
Australia would rather not buy more SH are they were only interested in them as a stopgap measure and not as a replacement or “instead of” purchase for the F-35.
Countries that buy Silent Hornet will get a significant industrial participation package; ie India’s producing Super Hornet airframe parts when it bought none.
The benefit that Korea has that nobody else has is that the production lines for those parts already exist. Anyone else who gets offset production contracts would have to PAY to create those production lines.
Who would say no to tech transfer if offered?
Korea has specific ToT needs that leads to its own fighter program. No other JSF partner has that level of need with a specific goal of a domestic fighter program.
It’s a round-robin system, where the newest becomes the 1st line fighters.
The JSF Partners (for the most part) are not doing a round-robin. Their 1st line fighters are being replaced with 1st line fighters. They have nothing to fall back on.
The F-35 carries too few munitions to suit Korea’s needs.
The F-35 also is the worst A2A fighter for JSF partner nations.
Purely your opinion and disputed by….. well, everyone who knows better and had seen the data.
To the contrary, the outcome will heavily be publicized and affect the decisions of JSF partner nations sitting on the fence.
Sure they will see it and note (as outlined above) how it does not apply to them. With the latest news of the F-35 only having a 10% bump over the F-16 in CPFH, this puts it well below the F-15 in CPFH and will likely play a major part in the cost analysis (as lifetime costs are larger than procurement costs).
[/quote]So Canada is interested in skipping the F-35 and jump straight to the F/A-XX?[/QUOTE]Um, no. That was a blog post from a private citizen and not from any official Canadian government official. Given that you could not tell the difference, that speaks volumes 😎
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