Oh, it's being taken seriously alright. As a competitor to Boeing and Lockheed. It will never be sold in the US, and will never be allowed to be exported (F-20 anyone?). Too many industry interests would suffer.wokka wrote:I'm a fan of the Textron Scorpion, a fraction of the cost, multi role, cheap to maintain as well. I don't understand why it's not being taken seriously yet. At the list price we can afford a hell of a lot of these for the price we're paying for the F35's and if we lose a few, there're still plenty left.
And of course, it's not fashionable. Fashion requires absurdly complex expensive fighters with all the IT and stealth buzzwords, or drones, and this is neither. Faced with these obstacles, the mere question of whether it can do the job better and/or cheaper than the alternatives becomes irrelevant
