Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Must admit I can see the UK Govt changing the balance of the F-35 order to the F-35A - that way they can say they're still buying the same number of air-frames but not need extra funding............
Adding a probe to A-model might not come for free. Nor is the alternative of putting a boom on Voyager........and that's before you get to the ILS costs of supporting two different variants which are nowhere near as common as originally hoped.