Not entirely , it made a claim to a certain number of aircraft that they intended to order , and have yet to remove that . They do pay an annual fee for this , get a voice in F 35 development and certain information , and also get to bid in the F 35 industrial contracts . So while they may be getting interim Super Hornets and in all likelihood plan to use that as an excuse to push the Super Hornets as this will likely make them 30 % cheaper in the final option or have simply cut into the alternatives budget by 30 % making it harder to have a sufficient force otherwise , until they end their current participation in the program it can ' t be said that they have officially canceled their intentwill to order . But since it ' s illegal for them to simply exclude the F 35 from a competition they are going about it this way with that as being the likely intention . Something that may very well see some lawsuits coming down the road anyway .