We have to be careful with the US military hardware too, they need constant updates or they just turn into scrap metal (Re Afghanistan)
Rory Stewart says all the intel goes directly to the US from the planes and we buy it back off them, then we have the security issues with sharing intel with the US and the gaping holes not having their Intel to fill in the blanks that we don’t know about, add to that satellite coverage that Europe uses for it’s military needs.
Won’t be an easy process weaning our self’s off the US and getting our stuff in the skys.