US is absurdly ahead in fighter development that countries need to pool together to develop alternative or be wholey dependant for foreseeable future. There's a

US is absurdly ahead in fighter development that countries need to pool together to develop alternative or be wholey dependant for foreseeable future. There's also political / tehcnical strings to using US fighters, which are dominating market and pushing out other manufacturers while US is historically also extremely stingy on tech transfer for joint developments. UK/JP/IT running F35. Sweden/UK/JP all have industrial knowledge. US also focusing on NGAD system which might be too finicky for export. There's a vaccuum and market for alternative. These are also countries who can't procure from PRC / Russia.