@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Both the US and Japan are at across the board production capacity. There isn't enough employment in either country for additional manufacturing loads. Especially not military grade, skilled manufacturing. It'll be very hard for either to quickly absorb a major bit of work from Turkey.
By 2020, one year after the Fort Worth plant hits its full 17-jet-per-month stride, there will be more than 600 F-35s, including nearly 180 sent to U.S. allies.
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2016/05/f-35-production-set-quadruple-massive-factory-retools/128120/
If these numbers are true (17 jets per month) I don't think they'll have any problems finding a supplier. The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it.
Edit: Looks like there is another assembly plant in Italy, but their production is even lower.