It would have been an upset had it gone the other way. The RNoAF has had a great time with the F-16, the US taxpayer stumped up for most of the MLU - one of the best-value programs I have ever seen, period - and two generations of pilots have trained and exchanged in the sunny US of A. And the price is a hell of a deal, which I'm sure the USAF would love to lock in if it were not illegal to do so.
So it's all
for now, but it will be
before bedtime unless JSF vastly outperforms the last six major all-new US combat aircraft programs - B-1, B-2, Classic Hornet, V-22, F-22 and A-12.