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No. Nor have I had that impression for the last twenty years or so.
Now...answer me this Navy...
Do you think that international corporations that were formerly producing in America, but have offshored their production, but who still import their foreign made goods have American's best interests at heart?
My honest opinion is this, I don't think and have never thought for a moment that American Military hardware, should be manufactured offshore in any shape or form. The reason being is quite simple, for a strategic reason one would not want to be put into a situation where a foreign supplier of a tactical asset would hold that asset hostage for any reason. Say for example the United State wished to perform a flyover of a country to access another for whatever purpose, and the country that we flew over was a main supplier of saay , tanker aircraft. So their response was, "we will withhold your tankers for your airforce, as we don't want you to flyover nor do we want you in X country or Y country" Not to mention the fact the number of highly skilled jobs that Americans are missing out on. So my honest opinion is, especially for military assests when our country does not first source these items from the United States and sole sources them from a foreign supplier then to me thats tantamount to treason. I know that may sound harsh, but to me it puts our country at great risk. I am not against a foreign supplier as a second source such as with BAE in the JSF project but not as a single source like the presdential helicopter.