The bragging rights to the first stealth fighter beLongs to the US of A. After close to 20 years the Russians finally came up with one of their own too. Then it was the Chinese. South Korea and Japan in way was racing against each other to build one too, latter opted out due to the financial constraint caused by tsunami that hit it.
Designing what more building a stealth fighter is very costly to the extend it may bankrupt a country if one is not carefully. We all know that US is already bankrupted. Russians had to join with India to avoid bankruptcy. The Chinese produce it too cheaply to bankrupt itself. South Korea? Mmm...
South Korea has Indonesia as partner to this venture, both are not economic giants yet but are said to become one be in decades to come. Can this two really do it?
They have a better chance if Japan join in. However due to past Jqapanese treatment over the Koreans especially during world war II this may not be traditionally possible.
But it if was, then a combine force of two strong democratic powers through their large economies and advance technologies may completely build a fly away unit and not only sell it to themselves but the rest of non aligned countries in Asia and the rest of the developing world too.
No more will these two countries be desparately hung up for F22.
They really need to do this especially when China has one now, and definitely hundreds or maybe thousands later.
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