TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

[Sanchez]

A plane is a sum of its parts. And a plane has many parts. And many owners (ip).

This have layers. Re US; buying an aircraft from US needs congressional approval; so acceptance of the near entirety of American political system. An aircraft with ITAR components, so an aircraft that's under American export restrictions require US State Dept approval, so an acceptance of the government of the time.

 

[Zafer]

This have layers. Re US; buying an aircraft from US needs congressional approval; so acceptance of the near entirety of American political system. An aircraft with ITAR components, so an aircraft that's under American export restrictions require US State Dept approval, so an acceptance of the government of the time.

Things will get a lot more complicated going forward as there is a bill to increase the level of integration between the US and Israel military joint development. Possibly the US will use more and more of Israel made components in the future which will need approval of Israel. This can surely limit the clientele of American made war machines.

 

[urban mine]

Isn't this just a rehash of what we talked about last time?

Most of the items listed in that article are already in the process of being localized, so why are we even debating whether they’re “Korean” or “Turkish”? It was actually kind of funny that the list even included details of technologies purchased and support received during development. Do they think Allah or the Hindu gods just directly imparted knowledge into the engineers’ heads in Turkey or India?

Is this a problem for exports? Well, if there were diplomatic issues with Korea, that might be the case, but we’ve never sold to any country where sales are prohibited in the U.S. Even in the case of the widely sold FA-50, there are many instances where foreign components included in the aircraft for overseas sales were replaced with domestically produced ones.

Some people may feel uncomfortable with phrases like “U.S. approval,” but keep in mind that Turkey is, after all, the country with the second-largest fleet of F-16s, right after the United States.

Not at all. KF-21 have tens of subsystems sourced from US and other countries. A Turkish user got triggered and made a massive list last year on twitter. I'm sure many of this will be nationalized in time, but many others simply won't be as that requires gutting the aircraft and making a new one.

But I don't understand what that means. Does that mean there are parts that are completely irreplaceable? Well, when you localize a product, some redesign is naturally involved, but it goes without saying that you design it to meet those specifications to ensure compatibility....