Washington passed a bill to ban sales of F-22 to any foreign nation.

what that bill is implying: make your own damn jet fighter!!!!

They just reaffirmed it, but I kinda figured this would happen.

I bet the Ruskies already have something way better and are willing to sell.

Not to China though.

China should just let the Russian Defence industry go bankrupt.

Check out the latest info:

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htproc/ar...s/20070807.aspx

Washington didn't "pass" a new bill; that clause had been there all along.

Exactly right....
No nation ever gives out its most valuable secrets to their allies. Friendships in the international community are fleating at best.
ex. Japanese company buys access to IBM's big blue, later it is determined that they also had gained access to sensitive US military data within the big blue, this data was sold to the USSR. The data was US technology for sonar on its subs.
Israel: through its spies gained access to how US submarines are made to be so quiet. Israel then sold this data to the USSR to gain travel visa's for Russian jews.
This is why no nation is wise to reveal its most secrete or best technology.
Japans government was not at fault and appologized for the incident.
Israel LOL appologizes to no one. That is one country that is never to be trusted.

tinman01,

You're 100% right. It would be crazy to sell the Raptor to any other country, even allies. Although, because I haven't kept up with this issue, I'm pleasantly surprised. Lockheed had been lobbying well before the Raptor was done for its sales to foreign allies--America is the world's biggest arms dealer. This is why I thought it would sell. The other reason is the the JSF F-35 Lightning is also a stealth fighter and it is actually a joint product of 35 countries including Japan. Raptor technology definitely must be kept under lock and key: Even well meaning friends can leak secrets via incompetence, i.e. spies amongst their midst.



Don't bet on it. The Russians are great at aeronautics like in thrust-vectoring, but not avionics, i.e. computers, electronics.

However, they do that F-117 Nighthawk shot down from the balkan conflict.


True.