BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK
Despite apparent plans to buy advanced Russian fighter jets and the United States rebuffing the requests for years, the United Arab Emirates reportedly remains interested in joining the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The U.S. government has had long-standing concerns that such a sale could undermine Israel’s so-called “qualitative military edge” in the region, but jet’s controversial and centralized computer brain, known as the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), might actually help soothe those fears.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15800/uae-could-become-the-first-middle-eastern-county-after-israel-to-get-the-f-35
