Now, if that quote was indeed accurate, would it not be rather odd that Boeing would be proposing something that the USAF had specifically ruled out?
That's not even fact-checking. It's called thinking. And of the many posters here, you are building up one of the worst track records of making assertions that are simply not true.
"The F-35 is NOT in production"
"The LIRP prices for the B includes the Liftfan (but not the engine)"
"Once production numbers start being built in 2017 the F-35 will probably cost the same as a SH. Possibly less"
& so on. So regardless of what your **** means, I haven't even started being the kind of ****head I can be, but I promise that I'll get there if you don't start engaging your brain before hitting the keyboard.