[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This article is garbage. Lockheed won’t sell the F-16 to USAF, it’s foreign customers only. Lockheed has already told the USG repeatedly, “If you wanna buy F-22s or F-35s, great! Wanna buy F-16s? Hit the road, Jack.”

[Mariner]

Lockheed will sell what the Air Force is buying, because the Air Force can stop buying what Lockheed is selling.

It really is that simple.

Oh, you don't want to sell us 240 upgraded F-16's? Fine.

We'll cut our order for F-35's by 400 and buy and extra 100 of the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F-15's.