“Has it crossed anyone’s mind here that the acquisition people at Wright Patterson simply made the best choice for the requirement?”
The same people who are giving us that moonpig F-35 that India refused, that no foreign nation really wants unless enormous diplomatic pressure is brought to bear? THOSE acquistion people?
And if the USAF actually TRULY believes that Afghanistan is going to have a functional Air Force 4 weeks after we leave, then we should disband them for lunacy and let the Marines take over.
Uh, India turned down the F/A-18IN not the F-35.