Bangladesh, June 20 -- Developing fighter jets is an extremely expensive, labor-intensive and complex task that only a handful of countries are able to accomplish all on their own (specifically Russia, China and the United States). This was also true decades ago, forcing the increasingly irrelevant European colonial powers to join hands in an attempt to build a pan-European fighter jet. Thus, back in the late 1970s, several countries (namely the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) launched the FEFA (Future European Fighter Aircraft) program to develop a jet that could match Soviet/Russian and American designs at the time. The joint project sought to reduce R&D costs and help with export sales, while also effectively unifying...