[TigerLikesRooster]

Interesting development.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[SevenofNine]

This is veryyy intersting hey Tiger who lead China lobby same Clinton leftover in State dept

[VaBthang4]

No.
Next subject.

[Porterville]

I love us. This technology is already a couple of decade years old for the United States... what do we have that is completely classified?

[Tamar1973]

If we aren’t going to to sell it to the Aussies, why would we sell it to the Japanese? If we sell it to the Japanese, the South Koreans might go nuts!

[Zeroisanumber]

No. As I said with the Israelis and the Australians: I’m happy to export the F-35 when it’s ready, but the Raptor should stay at home.

[AliVeritas]

Real interesting.

[Dimez Apart]

Love the Aussies and the Japanese, but no... We got a whole bunch of F-14s, F-117s, FA-18s, F-16s, and F-15s that will be hitting the market the next few years, real cheap like, have a gander at ‘em.

[gaijin]

Hohoho...! Whoa...! Now I THOUGHT they said they were going to buy the EUROFIGHTER...! Remember...?! They said, “We’re pissed cuz America won’t cough up it’s best stuff for us, and so we’re going to go buy the EUROFIGHTER..!”

[gaijin]

If the US signs off, LET JAPAN BUY OFF THE SHELF. No "co-production". No co-development of some "Japanized" version.

Let all our gear just stay, "black box".

They want fighter? Fine --let them break out their yen, and we'll FLY IN the FINAL PRODUCT to train them on.

We have strategic interests in Asia, FINE --but the US should NOT play tutor to the Japanese defense industrial technology base.

Let Japan BUY the stuff outright IF they're actually concernd about Japanese military interests (and not building whole new industries).

[PghBaldy]

It is a hopeful sign that Japan is concerned about her neighbors. I hope we are as well (ie; China).

[RobbyS]

There is a lot of Chinese money being spread around, just as there is a lot of Saudi money being spread around. If only we knew the impact of it on our policy

[omega4179]

As much as I admire Japan as an ally, we must not export the absolute pinnacle of air superiority. let them buy the F35 instead.

[AZRepublican]

I don’t understand this issue at all... We should allow the F22 to go where it does us the most good, our closest allies who are on the front lines.

[ponder life]

In general, if the US did not sell to one close ally in the Pacific (Australia), there isn’t a real good reason to sell the fighters to another. So, I would say there needs to be some consistentcy first.

[BuffaloJack]

Never sell the F22 to Japan.
They may be an ally but if money is involved they will copy it and sell it to anyone. Toshiba did this with advanced milling machine technology that we allowed them access to. They sold it to the Russians to allow them to make more silent submarines.