no , lockheed press conferences are just that - selling the who ` with or without engine` cost and its alledged benefits to those who will pay for it - but they do NOT say how stealth it will be , read up integirl has said the same thing.
The current environment of for Low Observable/Counter Low Observable (LO/CLO) technologies has made it extremely difficult to distinguish between technologies, which are appropriate for export through the commercial marketplace, and militarily critical technologies requiring further controls. This section is intended to highlight for users of signature control technologies the export coordination and approval requirements and critical LO and CLO technologies. The MCTL must be used in conjunction with other relevant program and policy guidance, to include the following:
• DoD 5220.22M, “National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)
• DoD Instruction S-5230.28, “Low Observable (LO) and Counter Low Observable (CLO) Programs (S-NF),” October 2, 2000
• “Security Classification Guide for Department of Defense (DoD) Low/Counter Low Observable (LO/CLO) Programs (U),” October 2, 2000
• Specific program classification guidance
• Government contractual guidance
thats from 2001; the US has restrictions into what it sells and to whom - and that very much includes any LO feature set of an aircraft - and is all under the umbrella of the USA`s National Disclosure policy;
cryptome.org...
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lockheed have been paid nearly $1 billion USD to `saniize` the export F35 in line with the US national disclosure policy , thats straight from:
www.defenselink.mil...
Lockheed Martin will design, develop, verify and test a version of the JSF air system that is as common as possible to the U.S. air system within the National Disclosure Policy.
and
www.defenselink.mil...
purpose of the Delta SDD is to develop a version of the JSF Air System that meets U.S. National Disclosure Policy, but remains common to the U.S. Air System, where possible
those are straight from the DoD military contracts pages: they have allready been paid to make the monkey model.
[edit on 24/7/09 by Harlequin]
