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Reply With QuoteIt's not just military technology the US uses, any military tech has to be approved for export. If the XM-8 program was completed and the US decided not to use it, the government would still have to approve overseas sales.
So we all know that the F-22 cannot be exported to other countries, but are other countries allowed to take the spoils of the contract competition? What I'm talking about is what's stopping powers that want the F-22 to go for the almost equally capable YF-23? Or is there something that the US government holds a power to have an export ban on the designs of those even though they are not utilizing it?
It's not just military technology the US uses, any military tech has to be approved for export. If the XM-8 program was completed and the US decided not to use it, the government would still have to approve overseas sales.
The YF-23 was developed under US government contract so it is still subject to export laws and companies that do business with the US government are also prevented from developing a completely new fighter on the same level as the F-22/23 for another country.
But mainly because few other countries are capable of producing aircraft that advanced, even from a pre-existing design like the YF-23. And the few that could cannot buy them in numbers that would justify their cost. If they could, they would.
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