I had to cool off on this one.
The Brits did as expected and switched back to the F-35B.
Honestly my first post on this subject said things like...They just need to drop out of the program...Why are we letting these people muck with the F-35 when they're buying so few of them...and lastly....What the fuck are they thinking, I've seen two year olds with more conviction when buying things.
But I'm left with this.
We're just two different countries.
With that in mind, may I make a suggestion?
Table this decision. Don't reverse it, just table it. Take a couple of years to decide exactly what you want to do. Your spots will be taken up by Israel and you'll be dropped down to observer status in the program and we'll get on with it. If you want back in awesome. If you don't then that's fine too.
But the interservice battles. The moves by the Royal Air Force to push this choice...The Royal Navy's obvious disgust by the choice is apparent.
Just let it go guys.
We'll talk to ya later.
The Brits did as expected and switched back to the F-35B.
Honestly my first post on this subject said things like...They just need to drop out of the program...Why are we letting these people muck with the F-35 when they're buying so few of them...and lastly....What the fuck are they thinking, I've seen two year olds with more conviction when buying things.
But I'm left with this.
We're just two different countries.
With that in mind, may I make a suggestion?
Table this decision. Don't reverse it, just table it. Take a couple of years to decide exactly what you want to do. Your spots will be taken up by Israel and you'll be dropped down to observer status in the program and we'll get on with it. If you want back in awesome. If you don't then that's fine too.
But the interservice battles. The moves by the Royal Air Force to push this choice...The Royal Navy's obvious disgust by the choice is apparent.
Just let it go guys.
We'll talk to ya later.
