via YonhapNews.
"Restarting the project with no clear reason would delay the replacement of old combat jets, affect other new projects and hurt South Korea's international credibility," the DAPA said.This will be interesting.
"The DAPA will suggest a model that comes within the overall budget to a committee meeting, which will make a decision whether to accept it or not," it said, indicating that only F-15 SE will be up for grabs in a meeting of top military officials slated for mid-September.
Lockheed Martin and the Joint Chiefs will lie, cheat and fabricate information to make sure that the F-35 gets selected. Die in the ditch was a quote by one of the members.
S. Koreans are a proud, stubborn people and won't accept pressure to change their decision and will resent people meddling with their selection process.
The critics have been waiting on one country to drop out of the program. LM counted S. Korea and now it looks like they lost. Is this the beginning of the end? I don't know but this won't help bend the cost curve...especially if the program office was counting on these 60 airplanes to help make the F-35 more affordable.
