(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-35 - Lightning II

[Quintus Fabius]

Dem folgend:

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter refused to transfer four key technologies needed to build Korea’s KF-X fighter jets despite Korean National Defense Minister Han Min-koo’s appeals Thursday.

A Korean defense official told reporters after the talks on Thursday that “Minister Han requested a forward-looking review of the transfer of the technologies for the KF-X project, but Secretary Carter adhered to the position that it would be difficult to transfer the four technologies for the KF-X, even conditionally.”

In September 2014, the Korean government signed a 7.34 trillion won ($6.41 billion) deal with U.S. defense and aerospace company Lockheed Martin to buy 40 F-35A jets and also receive technical support for Korea’s project to locally build its own next-generation fighter jet.

But it was only last month that Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration finally admitted that in April, Washington had refused licenses to transfer to Korea four core technologies in F-35 stealth fighter jets that are needed to develop KF-X aircraft.

Ich bin immer noch der Überzeugung dass die Zielsetzung der Koreaner hier vor allem anderen ist, den Preis für die F-35 zu drücken.