Paul F Austin wrote:
I think you're right that Boeing would have a non-starter on its
hands but the Ajeet is another example of a (for the time) high
performance fighter not adopted by the originating country that was
very successful in India. The Folland Gnat was designed with much
the same philosphy of simplicity that Ed Heineman used on the A-4,
making it attractive for a third world country with aspirations.

I knew there was at least one I was missing. The Gnat is of course a
product of its era, when you really could design a fighter for a reasonable
sum of money and not have to worry too much about system integration or
optimization. Like the F-5, it also had the great benefit of not trying to
compete head-to-head with any type that was actually adopted by the source
country (in significant numbers, anyway).

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