I mean for France, they don’t like to be tied to other nations when it comes to defense, even the concept of a Mirage 4000 is better than buying from the Americans
It is funny how often our enemies in war have French equipment though, if the US won’t sell to you, France sure will xD
Sweden never owned the AH-64 or T-80, they simply trialed and returned them.
The Thai ordered F-18s all started construction after a full initial payment, but had to be cancelled due to the Asian Financial Crisis. Still, the Thai specific aircraft were fully completed and put into service with USMC (also offered to Kuwait, but rejected).
The initial payment worth of nearly two complete F-18s at the time was also not returned, so it’s not weird to say Thailand deserve an F-18 they paid for
Still,
Only if it doesn’t cause any more delays with the F-2 than we already had!
and Iran has f-14’s that we didn’t sell to their current government
Spoiler
screw Iran for that, forcing us to destroy all our f-14’s
also Thailand never got the f/a-18’s even prepared to be shipped out to them and didn’t receive any training for them so that probably has alot to do with it