"John Cook" wrote in message
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Its quite a mine field, once you start going down the 'your an ally,
but not that trustworthy route'

As I noted earlier (in regards F-16/79) it is also a national prestige
issue, no country was prepared to buy the 2nd rate F-16 because it was
designed to be a 2nd rate a/c for countries that could not be trusted with
cutting edge stuff.

It will be interesting to see how this impacts on sales.