Yes, for a payment of $50K I would drive that car.

Well, we should have just refunded the fighter payment immediately when we decided not to deliver them. I mean, we don’t have to sell jets to the Ayatollahs but keeping the money seems, uh, wrong.

Y’all should re-read Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 555 U.S. 7 (2008). The case was virtually identical (except involving MFA instead of LFA) but the arguments and justifications can be copied verbatim.

Except here’s a case where’s it’s going to be cheaper to maintain a set of C130 derivations that share a common platform.