Originally Posted by SpazSinbad
“If, within the given financial parameters, room is created in the coming years to purchase more aircraft, the defence organisation will do so. This may be the case if the [10%] contingency reserve is not used in full and if the price per unit of the F-35 turns out to be lower than is currently expected.”...
Utter ballox, if the current 'given financial parameters' are only allowing the Dutch to commit to 37 aircraft, then the unit cost has got to come down by a spectacularly unrealistic amount for them to be able to even consider buying maybe one or two more jets 'in the coming years'! Seriously, an original plan for 85 jets more than halved to 37?!, Time to pack it in and buy 'more' of what you can actually 'afford'!
-RP