Catch 22 - To Air Force Pilot - Your Parachute Is now Made In China

[Robb]

3. It's called an offset deal. It sucks.

It's also been going on for decades.

Lockheed contracts out a major part for a build -- say, a wing section on an anti-submarine aircraft -- to a foreign country, who agrees in exchange to buy said aircraft instead of the competition's.

We're only going to see more of it as foreign companies start building final products that actually compete (as in, in the air) with those finalized here.