でまぁ

“we had to make hard choices in the budget,” he said. “This was one of them. I support the decision.”

The ECU “does not provide quite as much capability as the AETP would have, but it does meet the needs of all three services, and it provides us with the growth potential that we need, that’s been identified so far,” he said.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/strategy-policy-new-f-35-engines-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/

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Strategy & Policy: New F-35 Engines: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
By John A. Tirpak
April 27, 2023

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