It's all about optics, just like when the Liberals cancelled the EH-101, and bascially rigged the follow-on competition so the EH-101 wouldn't win again.
My worry is that they will go ahead with the 18 "interim" Super Hornets and then will keep kicking the F-35 can down the road as our Classic Hornets time out.
I am glad that they did a better analysis of the fighter fleet size (88) though, and moved off the Conservative's number (65), which was far too low.
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