To be sure: My Browning FN Hi-Power and Shotgun are prized possessions.
Small arms, and Radios are commodities. Too many home grown companies could replace them in a heart beat. Hell, IBM even produced arms for the War Department in WWII!
Large Multi Million (a piece) strategic military assets cannot be so quickly replaced with domestic suppliers if the need arises.
Too true, much of what Boeing sells in made in China for example....
If EADS and thier American partners land this and produce the A/C, the Boeing slime machine will find something else to complain about.
They already have a massive number of FedGov contracts - mostly disasters, the latest, the ‘border’ fence. Sorry Boeing, you lost. Man up and move on....