Triplebaconation wrote:Gallia- wrote:That's incredibly trivial yes.
Again, South Korea has no troubles operating Russian and American equipment in the same airspace lol. For that matter, neither does Poland, Romania, or Czechia, if we want to talk about MiG-29 and MiG-21.
An even better example might be Iraq, whose Thomson-CSF KARI system integrated Western and Soviet radars, aircraft, and air defenses with a British battle management system.
Needless to say, the Coalition had decent information about this system in 1991.
The S-400 is designed to be easily networked and unlike a gentoo installation collects sensitive information by nature. There's a possibility it could be patched to send this information to a node operated by Russian intelligence if this isn't already an undocumented feature.
Ye.
Rosmana wrote:Triplebaconation wrote:Lockheed has a more sophisticated method than bribing these days. By sourcing parts from Dutch industry it ensures there's always internal political pressure to procure F-35s.
Is that not another form of corruption?, it feels like Coercion, and I think they probably bribed PM Jan Peter Balkenende at the time.
I mean what is in it for US?, what do we gain?
I could be wrong though, but things like this really make me HATE my own country.
The alternative is being thrall to Germany, or Russia, or whoever, not a native aviation industry.
Dutch air industry died in the 1930's.