F-15EX Takes Flight

[Jormungandr]

Homegrown fighter plane development and production is expensive, They get fighters from USA at massive discount and their industry also takes part in upgrading these planes and that is enough. Their last fighter project was cancelled, basically because USA refused to co-finance it.
Aside from money, their defence research and development capabilities are limited (9 million population, with large percentage being useless in this regard) and spread across multiple fields (armour, ATGMs, SAMs, AAMs, electronics...), which means their aircraft industry would have to rely on technology transfers or imports, while also shortchanging some other fields of military development.

That makes sense, yeah.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Homegrown fighter plane development and production is expensive, They get fighters from USA at massive discount and their industry also takes part in upgrading these planes and that is enough. Their last fighter project was cancelled, basically because USA refused to co-finance it.
Aside from money, their defence research and development capabilities are limited (9 million population, with large percentage being useless in this regard) and spread across multiple fields (armour, ATGMs, SAMs, AAMs, electronics...), which means their aircraft industry would have to rely on technology transfers or imports, while also shortchanging some other fields of military development.

Not to mention they basically do still have the skills and industry to make their own fighter production capabilities if they really wanted to. Updating their aircraft fleet and modifying new aircraft to their specs kepts that alive as does making some of the parts that go into the F-35

 

[PsihoKekec]

I don't think the capabilities to build airframes and engines exist anymore, they would have to start from the beginning, which means pulling trained people from other industries.

 

[Marduk]

Homegrown fighter plane development and production is expensive, They get fighters from USA at massive discount and their industry also takes part in upgrading these planes and that is enough. Their last fighter project was cancelled, basically because USA refused to co-finance it.
Aside from money, their defence research and development capabilities are limited (9 million population, with large percentage being useless in this regard) and spread across multiple fields (armour, ATGMs, SAMs, AAMs, electronics...), which means their aircraft industry would have to rely on technology transfers or imports, while also shortchanging some other fields of military development.

Well, Sweden can do it, and does it even with considerably smaller domestic orders.
However, it is heavily reliant on imported components for the planes, and with the international politics around Israel that could be a disruptive issue. And if all of these components were to be from USA anyway, why not get a whole plane.