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"I bet Obama will find an excuse real soon to cut back production."

And if he does, it'll be one of the few things I agree with him on. The F-35 is an uber-expensive white elephant plane that's mostly less capable than the planes it'll be replacing. I'd much rather USAF buy updated F-16's, and the Navy just buy more Super Hornets. The only... only platform that the F-35 will be a noticeable improvement over is the Harrier, and even that's debatable in some respects. Knowing how tight Navy budgets traditionally are, the Marines may never see the F-35 in service, not for 90+ million a copy. This is the service that is still recycling their old Huey's and Super Cobra's, after all.