Companies should pursue profit first everything later you know. To gain that you should have advantage or edge compared to your competitor. US during before the great merger era in 1990-2000, had many efficient and cost effective companies in which can delivered new products within short term along with cost effective research. The likes of Mc Donnel, Douglas aircraft, North America, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, Vought , Skunks work and so on. With many competition, US aircraft technical and technology advantage is being leapt and bound compared to their allies and Rival of Soviet Union. Now largely, their fighter industry is quite degraded with only Boeing and Lockheed Martin rivalries in which bound to oligopoly games. This, in Indonesia the situation is more dire, with only SOE playing the games without incentive for competition.