Kurt
Junior Member
I do understand you, i can consider what you mean specially now that Argentina is building a nuclear submarine, in Latin America our governments are very corrupt and up to a degree not militaristic, imagine that in the 1980s, Israel offered to Mexico a Kfir manufacturing line in 1980, however our government rejected the offer.
In the early 2000s, Russia offered the Mi-8 license to Mexico to make Mi-17s in Mexico, the government rejected that offer.
i mean would had the government accepted today we would probably building Kfirs for South America, however our politicians considered they did not want to barter with Israel, because the deal was the Kfir line in exchange of oil, the mexican government decided to buy F-5s and simply get the cash for the oil we sold to Israel
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With the Mi-8 was the same.
Antonov also offered the manufacture of An-32s in Mexico, but our government also rejected the offer, the reason was they do not want to invest monies, they are happy letting GE or Honeywell do the research in Mexico, giving jobs to mexican engineers and investment and saving in research centers.
But i think in the case of Argentina and Brazil is different, you really want to build your own designs, but i think Argentina should do like Mexico and Brazil get more companies investing in Argentina like we do in Mexico, Today Bombardier, Beechcraft, Gulfstream, MD helicopters, GE, Honeywell, ITP are doing manufaturing and research in mexico but we lack real heavy weights like Brazil has in Embraer or you did with FAMA.
South America should do similar to brazil and cooperate more i think C-390 is a good example.
In future years perhaps a common aircraft carrier or nuclear sub could appear but i understand in latin american our governments sometimes are not really doing enough research as other nations do.
Mexico, so close to the US and so far from God. The US "backyard" can achieve a lot if they stick together, will they?