[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.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I agree with you, go buy strike eagles and tell Lockheed to suck it. Maybe they’d reconsider selling block 60 F-16s after a couple hundred strike eagles were purchased. Right now, the F-35 is the only jet on the USAF table as far as Lockheed is concerned. USAF bought the last F-16 in 2006.