You are free to believe in whatever you want to believe. But just think that if this plane were such a security problem as it is made out to be, why on earth countries like UK, Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, SKorea, Denmark, Poland, Belgium and Singapore have ordered these planes? Are they that stupid?
Sure, the plane has a lot of negative stuff going for itself; like, paint job coming off, can’t fly at supersonic speeds for too long, can’t open bomb doors at low altitudes, it’s engine is not very dependable many of them have had to have engine changes etc etc.
But in spite of all these problems all the above countries have ordered these planes. There will be more countries like Switzerland, Spain and Finland that will join this bandwagon.
Had we not been kicked out of the program we would be discussing something more positive about this plane now!
I personally don’t like the plane as a whole. It is fraught with technical problems. But it is a marvel of a plane from engineering point of view. It is too expensive to maintain. If we want to produce MMU , we can’t really afford 100 of these. Although I don’t believe in the ALIS problems and US switching it off conspiracy scenarios , it is at the end of the day a US made plane. And we would be dependent on US for everything to do with this plane. And that is totally wrong move for us. But as I have explained above, to keep our foot in we should buy no more than couple of squadrons.