The Tactics Behind Trump’s Bombing of Iran’s Nuclear Facilities _ WSJ part-2

The Tactics Behind Trump’s Bombing of Iran’s Nuclear Facilities _ WSJ

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00:00There will be a risk for Lockheed Martin that this is going to cannibalise their market.

00:04If the US orders F-47s, it will be at the cost of F-35s.

00:08I mean, it's a different aircraft, meant for a different purpose, but still.

00:13Questions have also been raised within the Trump administration

00:15about the F-35s' prospects in the face of unmanned aircraft.

00:20To tackle these concerns, Lockheed Martin is pushing forward with a combat drone system

00:25in which F-35s operate alongside unmanned craft.

00:28And there are European companies also catching up with their next-generation jets.

00:34You have the Tempest, which is a jet that's been developed by the British, the Italians and the Germanese.

00:39All three countries are big buyers of US jets.

00:43And then further down the line, you have something called the F-CAS,

00:45which is the French, the Germans and the Spanish, and potentially more partners within that.

00:51And so all of these jets will sap demand for US aircraft.

00:56The British, for instance, never bought the F-16 because they bought the Eurofighter.

01:03Development of a new jet fighter takes decades, but for the F-35,

01:07the arrival of the latest-generation aircraft means cutthroat competition is not that far away.

01:12The Tempest is supposed to come out in the next 10 years.

01:15It's less time than you'd think.

01:16Because people buy them over decades, it's going to definitely sap demand from at least those countries,

01:22the countries that make it.

01:23But it will also be a competitor out in the market because it will have all the things the F-35 has.