Many governments (including Nigeria's and Libya's) cancelled their informal commitments to purchase the machines when they realised the devices were untried, the price higher than envisaged and other cheap laptops available.
In terms of US availability, ZTE didn't mention any operator commitments at this time, but we can expect to at least be able to purchase one through an online retailer.
We were told, of course, that the optimal means of meeting Japan's air defense commitments in the 1990's -- namely, an off-the-shelf purchase of F-16's -- had been categorically rejected by the Japanese and that the FS-X deal was the best of the remaining options.