On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:48:57 +0100, ess (phil
hunt) wrote:

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:44:59 -0600, Scott Ferrin wrote:

From what I've read they're spending more $$$ trying to make it so
it's not reverse engineerable than trying to figure out how to make
two different versions. Maybe in the end they'll come down to the
export models having older generation RAM (it's already been
compromised with that F-117 shoot down) and a maybe not so fancy
radome if they can't figure out a safe way. Would hate a repeat of
the Iran/Pakistan thing.

Which was?

We sold Tomcats to Iran, the turned into an enemy an sent a Tomcat
complete with Phoenix missile to the FSU. We sold Pakistan F-16s and
I've read that at least one found it's way to the FSU. It would suck
to sell top of the line technology to a country who then sends it on
to China.