F-15X gets HUGE future buy...

We break: AF 5-yr plan to Hill today calls for spending $7.85b on 80 F-15EX  jets, 18 per yr after the first 8 in  2020; F-35 plan calls for 240 through 2024, or 48 per yr; last yr's plan called for 54 per yr in 21', 22' 23'

— Anthony Capaccio (@ACapaccio) March 18, 2019

This is the F-35 supporters worst fears.

Now do you get the force of connection!  The biggest customer for the F-35A is gonna take a haircut.  The F-35C is so small a buy that it will probably die.  The F-35B is moving forward but you have to wonder if the USMC will be able to afford the maintenance on the plane and if they might be forced (out of necessity and the future battlefield) to buy EA-18G's for the electronic attack role!

I told you the death spiral was coming.  This is it boys and girls!!!