Thanks for the question. It's very interesting.
Of course the core of the production and development of the Eurofighter Typhoon has taken place in Europe, but it's not only within the four core nations. We have several industries that are supporting the Eurofighter Typhoon, including France and other nations outside the core. And even outside Europe, there are companies participating in the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Of course Canadian industry would be more than welcome to participate in two elements of the future Eurofighter Typhoon, should Canada enter the program. These would include participation in the manufacturing of components and the final assembly line, because with the size of fleet Canada would need, it would be economically convenient to have a final national assembly line. We are already offering this capability to other nations where we are actively campaigning for the Typhoon--namely, Japan, India, and all of the nations where the size of the fleet would be in excess of 30 units. Then it's economically convenient to have a final assembly line in country that would also allow the local industry to familiarize itself with the aircraft, so they could support the aircraft well once it enters the local air force.
In addition to that, I said we had a progressive plan to introduce new capabilities to the product. Of course these capabilities are currently based on the requirements of our core nations and our export customers who are already part of the program. Should another country enter the program, then most likely they would have their own requirements. These would be additional to those already being considered by industry at present. For the development of these additional requirements, we would most likely rely on the support and help of local industry. This would include, therefore, a lot of transfer of technology and transfer of information on the product, which I think is a unique asset making the Eurofighter Typhoon different from most of the other platforms available in the world.
Just to give you an example, we are offering Japan the capability of integrating its own Japanese legacy weapons into the Eurofighter Typhoon, with the capability of doing that in an independent way from European industry.