does anyone know if the RR F-136 engine is part of the much heraled 'offsets' that apparently make any UK buy F-35's cheaper (in the whole, given tax revenues to HM Treasury) than the price that say, Canada or Norway might buy the same airframe at?
so if that nice Mr Obama - who's been such a success - gets to cull the 'spare engine', will the (somewhat theoretical) sums the MOD has done so far over JSF have to be re-done?