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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by bayindirh on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:35PM (#43311507)
Europe's weaponry is already somewhat "open source". Many big things like aircraft and missile systems are designed and built with pan-European consortia. As a result, every country knows how to build these things.

Heck, even Italian Agusta sold some of their platforms to a NATO ally with build/iterate/export permissions...

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by aerostable_slug on Sunday March 09, 2025 @04:35PM (#43313472)
Look up the F-35 sometime. For Germany's F-35 fleet, Rheinmetall was going to build the fuselages and do final assembly in Germany. Splitting up the work like this isn't unique to products from Panavia or similar EU-only consortia.
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