Persian Gulf F-35 force for good?

(2007 LM F-35 marketing slide)

Years ago, LM put foward a sales potential graphic for F-35.

Today, I would like to look at that with some of the focus pushed down to mostly Persian Gulf nations.

Since many think that the F-35 aircraft is useful because it has "stealth" qualities, we need not feed the clueless further. F-35=invincible.

Training for complex systems presents much of a challenge for the region. Foreign contractors can pick up much of the slack. Missions can be dumbed-down to:

1. Fly here and release a JDAM
2. Fly here and try and intercept / shoot down an aircraft.

The Delta-SDD "configuration" doesn't have to do much. So much anti-tamper and lock-down that the aircraft won't start if something is, well, ...tampered with.

Pretty easy.

Proposed Persian Gulf* F-35 aircraft quantity by country

Kuwait 24
Bahrain 24
Qatar 24
UAE 24
Oman 24
Jordan 24
Saudi Arabia 48
*= plus Jordan

That is almost 200 aircraft. I am costing them at about $300M each. This should cover nice, feature-rich hardened aircraft shelters.

Start-up total? About $60B.

Where would the money come from?

At about $6B per year for 10 years, it could come from the USAF budget.

All of this will pad LM pretty well, and come out with the appearance of a strong, robust, joint, Persian Gulf strike force.

Just add a USAF combat HQ air staff on-demand along with an F-22 deployment and presto. Annual air power exercises would give the appearance of power also.

Success?