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If you really want to promote peace, and for some reason cannot reduce military expenditure, the best choice is to co-produce a weapons system with your erstwhile enemy.

They should make a MIG-boeing or Sukhoi-Lockheed-Northrop proposal of real merit.

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This would maybe work between equals, but not when US has everything to lose and Russia has everything to gain.

it works all the time. If you want to maintain superiority you didn't want peace in the first place.

“it works all the time”

Citation needed

The F-35B gained a lot from the Yak-141 though, time to give something back ;)

That's just an urban legend though.

From what I've read, Lockheed Martin entered a partnership with Yakovlev and essentially funded the last few prototypes after state funding had dried up because of the Soviet Union collapse. Even if they didn't use the exact same engine configuration than the Yak-141 (it's pretty damn close though) I bet those 400 million dollars were well spent to get access to research the Russians had already done in the decade before (even if it just means not repeating the same errors).

F-35 uses totally different configuration and 400 million were for further Yak-141 development which Russians botched anyway.

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