UAE military officials have previously expressed their desire for the fifth generation, or stealth, technology.
But a major problem is that the value of the F-35 is in its stealth characteristics, explained Jack Watling, land warfare expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London. "This means adversaries need to not get access to the technology."
"In the case of a number of countries who may very well be interested in it as a platform, there would be concerns about the security of that platform with regard to either Russian or Chinese technicians getting access to it."the UAE is a buyer of China's Wing Loon armed drone platform"The UAE is ... one of those states where a number of people in the program — not least Israel — might have serious concerns," Watling said.
Because of the policy of maintaining Israeli QME and other strict U.S. export requirements, "The possible sale of F-35 in the current strategic environment is unlikely, as Israel has only just begun to receive its F-35s," Forrester said. "Similarly, as the program is a multinational one, current export restrictions from some European partners may curtail the ease of sales to the UAE."
"However," he added, "it is not completely unlikely that the UAE will acquire the F-35 in the future, or another fifth- or sixth-generation aircraft that is under development."
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