Originally Posted by peter we
The Netherlands is a special case, their budget is seriously screwed up and they are no indication of what will happen elsewhere.
That is a somewhat simplistic representation of reality.
Budget troubles among the partners are more the rule than the exception, Italy, Denmark, Canada and even the US are all seriously suffering on this front, even Australia and Norway are far from certain.
The Japanese still have the right to completely abandon their order in case of further price increases.
The only reason that the Dutch are now in the picture is that politically they had to publicly commit to keep the minority coalition alive, they made it seem like they came to a final compromise between the liberals and labour (the 2 ruling parties) but that is more cosmetics than anything else, the devil is ,as usually, in the details, Samson (fraction leader Labour) clearly stated that they can make up their mind (read change) until 2015 or 2016 ,or even longer when extra in the program delays happen.
Originally Posted by Spaszinbad
For 'kbrockman' This is the current LM F-35 official order book.
F-35 Lightning II Program Status and Fast Facts 09 Sep 2013
Thx Spaszinbad, like you can see,
officially all partners keep their orders numbers, nobody wants to loose work share
today thereby underwriting my previous statement that this is gong to be a game of chicken as to whome has to cancel first, and before anyone doubts this, it will happen with most of the partners.