They built it and now are buying it as well

So you're butthurt because we have to monies for a physical piece of equipment?

Or are you butthurt because its da Jooz

Lmao move the goalposts any further and we aren't playing a game any more

I'm not playing a game, I'm arguing with a retard who doesn't understand the defense industry

Hahaha very good, you would make a fantastic business man

Go pay finance a whole R and D then pay the produced units as well, nice one dipshit

Also, the damn thing was *tested in action!*

That's literally the best R&D you could ever have on a prodcut

Admit it, you're just angry because it's Israel

So the US could have built it in the US and then sold it to Israel and retained the rights

Looks better to me if I was a US tax payer

The US doesn't build anything, dumb ass lol

Less Israel than a distillation of the ridiculous excesses f the US military industrial complex

Burning public money

The US loves to outsource R&D to the nations that have the best engineers of what ever they want for it military

Keep it up with the ad hominems, really enhances your fragile arguments

@DiscordantFool Let's take the Raptor for instance:

We paid WAYYY more in R&D for that. And it was never tested in combat before purchase.

We subsidized it, and gave tons of money to Boeing to develop.

After it was done, we still had to purchase a unit from Boeing.

How is this different?

Ever consider that that is equally retarded?

Yes?

If anything more so, I'd bet that was 10s of billions

Yes that's my fucking point

This deal was terrific

Lmao so we agree

@franti <:pepe_eyes:378719408362881024>

walking talking cunt

I'm pointing out the Israel one because its recent

You're complaining about the best defense deal we've ever had lol

Oh wow

Neo con pls

Honestly, it's not a bad business plan: give development money to at risk nations to build systems that will actually see use, and then snatch it up later lol

This is irreconcilable at this point, you appear to enjoy burning piles of tax payers money for the craic

I would have no problem with that if

lol no, I want to see the fed collapse

The US while financing the whole thing retained their rights to the tech, it's pants on head to not get something out of the offered finance

They have so much leverage given they determine whether it even happens

I mean, it's not like we have the rights to a lot of our current tech anyways

But we'll have to see the details of the contract regardless, the BBC article may be misconstruing it

The intricate systems of the F35 and F22 are still owned by Lockheed and Boeing, and have to be remotely accessed to be fixed

Our mechanics have to call tech support for our greatest fighter jets lol

Yeah, those are US headquartered companies if nothing else