I mean most Muslim nations are from a technology perspective behind turkey there are some exceptions like Iran with its ballistic missiles program and that’s just because of the range of the missiles. Another would be Pakistan because of their nuclear weapons program but the moment we start our...
well jf 17 is a pakistani jet as much as it is a chinese jet engines avionics ect are sourced from china not that we would even consider it.
Technically the status of our airforce is our fault as it is the fault of our (allies). Even if the true reason why we didn't get the f35s was israeli...