South Korean KAI KF-X fighter

Probably never. When the Europeans stop being politically dependent on the US they might as well buy Chinese aircraft.
And the US wont ever spend a huge amount of money on a Non-US aircraft.

Although the Japanese Recently changed there law regarding export I highly doubt the Japanese will allow unlimited export of military tech more likely they will demand any export program be jointed.

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Once more Delft I am forced too wonder if you are trying too make some kind of political statement.

Yes a large number of Euro zone nations are buying US Aircraft that does not mean they are totally slaved too it both France and Sweden for example are going there own with Rafale and Grippens. fact is they pick what they like for the best deal they can. as for money on non Us made aircraft yes they will never buy a totally non us manufactured aircraft but they will license production the C27J is an Italian design, UH72 is German, AV8 is based on the british harrier, RQ5 is isreali, the lead coast guard helicopter is french the USAF just chose the Brazilian Super Tucano as it's new attacker. yes The Us maintains a massive number of American made Aircraft, and why not? when you maintain the number of defense manufactures the US Does?

the way i understand it, the F-35 is a replacement for the F-4, and the ATD-X is a future replacement for the F-15Js

this is also the case with the KF-X which are going to replace ROK F-5, and they will probably still buy F-35 for the F-X programme

welp. spotted.

Really impressive achievement for Korea! I also think the KF-21 looks great so far! Hopefully it can be a useful aircraft when it enters service.

And she flew!

Congrats, would be good to cut as much as possible of US/western dependence of engines and electronics systems also.
Shame for Japan not to develop their own 5th gen fighter, but keep begging for super expensive F-35, which comes with huge amount of blackmales...

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Shame for Japan not to develop their own 5th gen fighter, but keep begging for super expensive F-35, which comes with huge amount of blackmales...

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uh. Japan is working on their next gen F-X fighter. There's talk they'll combine it with the British Tempest project or at least use a lot of common parts.