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    How does the aircraft export ban work?

    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?

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    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.

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    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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