Re: military weapons, was: [OT] Bell Canada - service vs. abuse

On 2025-05-22 10:08 PM, danny burstein wrote:

In <100okul$3oppn$1@dont-email.me> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> writes:
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I think you fail to see the obvious answer. If your country were truly
to move away from the F-35 then there's no reason to keep them. Just
sell them to another country that is using the fighters. I'm sure
there will be many willing buyers.

 

Weapons sales tend to come with a "you can't sell this stuff to anyone else"
clause in the contract. We only want those things going to certain countries.

 Certainly true, but if Lower Slobovia decides to
transfer some of their US sourced tanks to Freedonia,
what can the US do (within reason...) to stop them?
 Yes, the US can refuse to sell any more tanks, and
can end replacement parts/repairs, but that's not
going to physically stop the handover today...
 

Most of Iran's air force was acquired when the Shah was still in power and they still have most of it but they're only a notch above WWII surplus aircraft at this stage after decades without parts.
They have a few Soviet aircraft that they obtained after the Islamic Revolution but I'm not sure they're a lot more up-to-date.
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Rhino