CriticalThought
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@JamD is right, the Turks (or for that matter Ukraine, South Africa, etc) aren't going to give IP to a potential commercial competitor. I think our best approach is to give up on the commercial side entirely and instead argue our national security imperative. In other words, we give up on exports, but we get all of the technology.
OTOH, we could join Turkish UAV programs as a whole (or Turks join Pakistani ones), and then we basically end up marketing and exporting the same design with workshare, revenue-share, etc. Basically, we end up with consortium situations (which the Turks seem to prefer).
I think, ultimately, the Turks would prefer shared equity consortiums since it distributes risk, investment, and benefits. But I am OK with surrendering some workshare and export benefits for the sake of preserving our national security (by ensuring we get the sensitive IP so that our armed forces can move forward).
In such scenarios, you negotiate a percentage to be paid as royalty to OEM whenever any exports are made. Pakistan is depriving sales of Russian jets by introducing a very potent alternative, yet they keep selling us RD-93s.