F/A-22 is needed because the F-35 will be leaked?

"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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Thomas Schoene wrote:
Henry J Cobb wrote:
...One concern of the committee was the possibility of U.S. technology
being leaked to adversaries because of liberal licensing of Joint
Strike Fighter technology to subcontractors. General Moseley said the
JSF program office is aware of the issue.

So the F/A-22 is safer because nobody wants it?


No, it means the JSF program has to worry about firewalling its key
technology. This is nothing new; we've been worrying about this ever
since
the F-16 (if not earlier). It has little to do with F/A-22, except that
JSF
uses technology from the older design (such as radar) that has to be
protected.

BTW: Congress's main conern on this is really industry not adversaries.
The
main reasons they raise these concerns are pressures form certain
suppliers
who want to be protected form foreign second-sourcing. That's why we
get
idiotic stuff like the sweeping restrictions on foreign technology
acquisition (under the "buy America" guise) that Congress tried to
impose
recently.

http://www.angelfire.com/fm/compass/P-38.htm
In March 1940 the British Purchasing Commission ordered 143 of the first
production model of the P-38, but the State Department prohibited export
of the F2 Allison engine. The British aircraft - designated the
"Lightning 1" - was therefore given early C15 engines lacking
turbochargers, and was a failure - the RAF eventually rejecting it.


An urban legend. The BPC requested that it be supplied with the
same engine as the P-40 so as to allow a single source of spares.

It failed to meet Lockheed's promised perfomance with that
engine which is why it was rejected.

Keith