Also
The guy in the white house publicly said that the price of F35 was too high. He publicly said that he want to order more SH18...
ALL recent west big weapon programs were cut. In USA : Seewolff SSN, Zumwalt cruiser, A12 attack plane, Comanche Helo, F22, etc...
So will be the F35. USA will invest more in the UAV instead.
A seconf mandat for the idiot with blond hairs? Maybe. The very average US people are probably ready for that. But he has so many affairs in the a** that he may be kick off by the US elite in the next 2 years.
The guy in the white house pulled a public stunt to negotiate the F-35's price down while ordering more F-18s thus keeping the line open another 7-8 years while USN ordering around 100 Block 3 SH over the next 5 years and Kuwait and others including India mull an F-18ASH purchase. In 2017, he got $600 million off the 90 jet LRIP 10 purchase order and in 2018 the order is for 147 F-35s. He is just playing hardball to keep Boeing, LM and others in check. The funnier thing is in this day and age the US still manages to sell F-15s, F-16s and F-18s (old designs) while most Euro canards struggle for orders.
So meanwhile the production of the F-35 continues and the commitment is still to buy over 2400, nothing has changed as per US plans. Talk of cuts doesn't always result in cuts. With every block buy getting a lower price tag the cost of the acquisition is dropping. While a window of an order cut exits for the next 2 years, especially before full scale production clearance which is to be expected by Oct 2019 but given the current economic conditions, this is not happening.
While some will try to derail the purchase, it is political suicide for any senator or congressman to get onboard with cuts since the supply chain is spread over 47 states and the last thing any democrat wants is to give more leverage to a President who by virtually all KPI is doing very well. Especially when thousands of jobs depend on this and this president is continues to deliver growth. At Peak production around 2022, the price per unit will be at it's lowest and having a cut at that point is pretty much unjustified. The 6th gen aircraft program which is at it's infant stages in planning won't be ready for any serious testing etc. for another 12-15 years so no chance that's happening. There is no planned reduction in the size of the US military. So, while you seem to think such a purchase or cancellation is based on the product's qualities, this is seldom the reality. This is a political deal before anything else and such a massive decision has the potential to shake the pillars of power.
Funny that it took an idiot to bring the US economy to the best state yet with 4.2% GDP last Quarter and consistently over 3% average over the last year, 4 million new jobs since election and 500K jobs in manufacturing (unheard of). Unemployment is at historic lows across the board. The trade deficit has dropped over 50 billion. Tax cuts resulted in over half trillion in offshore profits being poured in. The average middle class family has more tax cuts, corporate tax is down to 20%, consumer confidence is at it's highest, there is rush of new businesses. The same idiot also has got the pretty much every trading block's ball's in a vice grip. Junker had to run WH to negotiate, China is shitting bricks, NATO partners have already begun increased defense spending. Israel is closer than ever.
The democrats don't have anybody who can really challenge him, they ran out of ideas/policy arguments and basically are a rebel/ resistance party. A second term is virtually certain and don't be surprised if a red wave (because of open lunacy being demonstrated by the Left) keep the republicans in power in congress and senate in a greater majority.
By the way in comparison what are the accomplishments of the globalist poster boy 'Macron'?
Funnily, most major Paris climate accord signatories including EU, China, India and many toehr continue to add millions of tons of CO2 while US has been dropping emissions at good rate. Proves that he was wise to get out a BS deal.
http://www.aei.org/publication/char...sions-in-the-world-for-9th-time-this-century/
The last thing we need is the gospel according to a university instructor at the Peace Corp in China or someone who worked in refuge resettlement in France (seems like all he did was to get everybody into St. Deniz 
)
