Buy me a SAAB for Christmas and I'll be happy. I'd even fly Rafale to be honest - depends what you want to do. But we have our FJ hardware at the moment so I'm not expecting any change just yet.
As far a the politicos are concerned we have our Cold War designed one-size-fits-all so there we have it. Until JFS falls apart copletely they're not going to look at anything else no matter how worthy.
I have always said, why do we need the sparkliest, newest, highest-risk technology when it's immature and expensive when there are so many, perfectly adequate alternatives on the shelf.
But I'm just a pilot. Give me something to to the job and I'll get on with it.