This ongoing issue that now exists in Canada, also exists in the Netherlands,
The national accounting office (a non partizan official advising office) responsible for calculating and estimating all things financial from the government has ,today ,issued a rather condemning rapport concerning the oversight on estimated costs ,both in the past and present ,by the DoD and partners involved in the JSF project.
Also the originally planned purchase of 86 F35's has already been put into question as the DoD is already backscaling its pilots training program and supposedly have already taken into plans to get rid of at least 19 out of 86 JSF's for now, putting more and more credibility into the claims of exterior investigating efforts that in the end there is just enough money for maybe 55 planes (and that was with prices predicted in 2009-2010).
If the US are counting on foreign salesnumbers to achieve their goals on the level of pricing for the JSF once full rate production starts, than they are certainly sabotaging their own plans by allowing for this level of financial mismanagementright up until today and as it looks, also for the foreseeable future.
in Dutch (phlegm-alert)
'Kamer mist inzicht in kosten JSF en F-16' - Binnenland | Het laatste nieuws uit Nederland leest u op Telegraaf.nl [binnenland]