Re: Genuine question
'On the other hand, Russians are also perfectly willing to let large buyers to build their hardware locally under a licence'
I suspect they wouldn't be that keen on letting the UK licence build Russian hardware even if we wanted to, geo-politics and all that.
As an aside, they weren't that happy when the Chinese broke the terms of their licence to make better versions of the Su-27.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
