Isn’t that a tad hypocritical given the amount of high-tech hardware the US sold to shaky allied such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia ? F-15, M-1 tanks, AWACS planes...
I am afraid the lesson that will be learned by BAE and other UK firms will be NOT to use US technology, so they remain free of selling to whoever gets approved by their OWN government.
I guess I fail to see the problem. Who’s gonna be flying them?
Arab air forces are rife with neopotism and cronyism. They farm out maintenance and logistics to Westerners and are lucky to be able to get off the ground in the event of a conflict. (Egyptians are a little better than the Arab standard, but not much.)
This is like selling computers to gorillas, a waste of money.
Oh yeah, these guys