So, if Romney does get elected, and does keep this pre-election promise (yes, getting to the 'fairly remote' territory, here!
), surely they'll have to be "F-22C", with new radar, new distributed-aperture IRST, whole new embedded computing solution, &c., to bring them up to mid-2010's technology.
And if that's happening, surely the F-35 is dead, they could never afford both programmes. The USN buys lotsa FA-18E/F/G & "H/I/J" Superbug upgrades, the USAF buys lotsa F-16 "Block 70", so they're happy.
If they made the F-22C available to Israel, Japan and Australia, they'll be happy too.
The only people really dropped in it are the USMC and UK, both of whom have 'bet the farm' on the F-35B.
