No, it is not bullshitting at all. Look at Taiwan's IDF. They
call it indigenous design, but hey, they will have no plane if not
for Lockheed Martin design assistance. In many sense, the IDF looks
like and feel like a scaled down F-16. Look at Japanese F2 as
another example. You can further refer to Indian LCA with lots of
help from other foreign countries, Chinese J-10 in fact is a copy
of Lavi, not to mention Lavi itself is based on the Viper's design.
There you go, as long as high percentage of the design, including
the interior fit out, structural layout, and majoring of the ship
is designed locally by ST Marine, then intial design based on some
existing design and modifying it is NOT consider a copy or
non-indigenious. I think ST Marine has done well and should be
proud to call it indigenous design. Period.
