Exchanges with you are clearly pointless, so this will be my last reply in this exchange.
As have we all. It's called "marketing".
You completely ignored my very next sentence.
"And many of those accounts are from USN, which is MUCH less committed to the F-35 than USAF." USN a shill for LM? Yah shur.
There is no other benefit from such things being "not just scabbed on"
Your statement, even though you make it sound certain, is pure assumption/speculation on your part. Of course
you have access to hard data no on else on this thread has. Yah shur.
The reason (as stated on this thread a few times), in the case of the partner nations, is that they signed on (in 2001-02) for an airplane that was much cheaper to buy and to operate....
Yet more assumptions, and in this case false ones. I was not referencing "partner nations" and I was not referencing 2001-02 decisions but 2014-15 decisions. And along those lines, we all know that Israel, Japan, and S. Korea all have long and storied histories of making scandalously naive fighter procurement decisions. Yah shur.