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Northrop Grumman angles for role in Japanese stealth fighter program

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By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo

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How about give all our pension money to all 3 American arms dealers equally?

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Aint that what war is all about folks ? Making money whilst making misery for all the pawns. The pawns are all motivated by patriotic garbage pedalled by the elites

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I wonder if Japan care to work with a company that hires violent White Supremacists.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN STILL EMPLOYS WHITE SUPREMACIST MICHAEL MISELIS, WHO TOOK PART IN CHARLOTTESVILLE ATTACKS

http://hinterlandgazette.com/2018/07/northrop-grumman-employs-white-supremacist-michael-miselis-who-took-part-charlottesville-attacks.html

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Silvafan, not anymore:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-miselis-white-supremacist-20180707-story.html

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Jcapan, thanks for the update.

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We just had the biggest flood in centuries and now we need jets? What for? Plus Trump would not allow high tech out of the country, after payment, we might not get the technology.

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Didn't Italy just reduce/cancel its order of Fighter jets from the US?

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Just as the Lockheed offer is based on the F-22, Northrop offer is based on the YF-23.

Risks to Japan is higher, but offers greater opportunity to insert Japanese components into the YF-23 since it was never fully developed. In comparison, the modernized F-22 is a straight export offer; the whole thing would be assembled in the US and then flown to Japan for delivery.

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Didn't Italy just reduce/cancel its order of Fighter jets from the US?

That's correct:

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2018/07/mil-180707-presstv01.htm?_m=3n%252e002a%252e2334%252eon0ao001ut%252e25d3

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