Shane McGlaun has a new piece up on Daily Tech about the progress of the F-35 Lightening II Joint Strike Fighter program.  In an interesting passage from the full article, HERE, Army Lieutenant General Christopher Bogdan, the officer in charge of the F-35 program at the Pentagon, said:

“I don’t see any scenario where we are walking back away from this program.  We’re going to buy a lot of these airplanes.”  The 2015 fiscal request from the DOD asks for funds to buy two Navy versions of the F-35, six Marine versions, and 26 Air Force versions.

In a related story, Defense News is reporting HERE that F-18 Hornet purchases by the US Navy are over, with no new orders to Boeing from them or from any foreign governments.