Alliances, how they should be treated and Ship sharing

[Dab]

Hmm, note that US exports like this tend to be surpassed by the craft they use in their own forces.

I would personally sell inferior gear to potential future threats. Makes sense to me.

Yes, US gear does surpass the craft they generally sell out. BUT the US doesn't even have many F22s themselves. As you saw in Why?'s post, they are 336 million a pop.. Thats a lot of cash.. They are replacing the F-16s in America, but slowly. Once roughly half the F-16s are replaced, if not sooner, the US will begin to sell them off to other countries.
And the planes you see advertised and uised by the US military, technically are already out-of-date. The US Air Force is usually working on a plane for about 15 years before its knowledge is widely released. Right now they are working on unmanned planes that are more agile as F-22s, and faster as well, as they don't have to have any of the systems put in place to have the pilot.. These planes are significantly smaller, and as such, more advanced. They already have prototypes of them. These won't be highly advertised as the F22s are right now, for over a decade.. If at all, considering that they are unmanned and could enable a country to pump out vast quantities of them (not as expensive as an F22 in total..) and send them into combat without losing valuable pilots.

Also, about WWII politics.. The British had mostly Spitfires yes, but they did also have a good dose of Hawker Hurricanes. Even a few Mustangs. I would think a big reason the US did not provide the Brits with planes is because it would make it blantantly obvious which side the US was taking if Russia saw Britain flying with Mustangs and the earlier P-40 models.. Also, on the issue of the Russians, you are wrong.. A good bit of the Russian's aircraft were P-40 and later P- model fighters. For fighter-bombers they used IL-2s, which were Russian-designed, and they also had their own bomber craft, but they used a lot of the same fighters as the US did, until the later years of the war.
And the stuff about the US aiding Britan was also true. There were volunteer pilots from the US Air Force that shipped to Britain and flew in British squadrons. We also sold a large amount of ships from our Atlantic fleets, and a very large amount of oil, ammunition, and other resources were sold/given to the British.

The only ships that allies shouldn't share are the highly advanced models. Bombers and VHFs should generally be shared. Gunboats would be a bit harder to get to, cruisers would be very difficult, and battleships would be extremely rare, especially considering how few are made by Pirate organizations. Lane Hacker Spyglass should never be owned by anyone but a Lane Hacker, whether your an ally or not, because the LH don't have the resources to produce battleships in large amounts.

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