The weekly speculation of the imminent cancellation of the F35 goes on here....Meanwhile....in the real world where most people live.
Subs and F-35 are considered the priority for US procurement and will be the last to go.
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Wires Brief: UK pilots practice landing F-35, next CIA chief takes heat, Pakistan-India skirmish erupts - DefenceReport
"BAE flight test trainers have been begun teaching RAF and Royal Navy pilots how to land the F-35B on the simulated rolling deck of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, reports the MoD. BAE says they are teaching pilots in their Lancashire-based simulators to use the shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) method – a manoeuvre that requires the pilot to fly at about 60 knots (111 kilometres per hour) with a flight path of six to seven degrees in order to land on deck. This method, says BAE, allows the F-35B to reduce impact force of landing, preserving the air frame. Lockheed Martin incorporated the SRVL system for the UK at an initial cost of some USD 13 million (GBP 8 million). "
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As to Canada, they also need a boom for their C-17 air refuelling. Buy, leased or contracted, Canada will have boom refuelling