Maybe they should split the design and the manufacturing. Everyone can throw a design to the table and then choose the best. And then and only then talk about which part is build by which partner.
I am by no means an expert in this kind of thing, but I believe they usually separate it by broad categories of components. In the Eurofighter, for example, avionics were primarily handled by the Italian part of the consortium. The F-35 similarly has a lot of the vertical take-off stuff handled by the British partner companies because they’ve got experience with that
Maybe they should split the design and the manufacturing. Everyone can throw a design to the table and then choose the best. And then and only then talk about which part is build by which partner.
I am by no means an expert in this kind of thing, but I believe they usually separate it by broad categories of components. In the Eurofighter, for example, avionics were primarily handled by the Italian part of the consortium. The F-35 similarly has a lot of the vertical take-off stuff handled by the British partner companies because they’ve got experience with that