It's not going to get any better for the US Navy or Airforce or Army with prices going up and budgets going down.
They will have to live with what they have till these contracts are finished and then they will be able to borrow no more.
Times are changing ...
as for the F-35 I think the Marine carrier based version will be among the best fighter planes of the future.
I hope we don't have to start a war to prove it
