Flysatsingen is said to be the most expensive military weapons system in history.
the F-35 program and the costs are out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on the military (and other) purchases by 20. January, type Trump on Twitter, at the same time as the country’s current secretary of defense Ash Carter is in Israel to celebrate the delivery of its first two aircraft of this sort.
The u.s. airline Lockheed Martin has a contract of 1.5 trillion dollars on the delivery of the aircraft out 2070. This latest generation of combat aircraft has a price tag of 100 million dollars each, reports AFP.
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errors are found in the two Norwegian F-35 fighter jet
battle-tested in august
Norway is one of the international partner countries participating in the F-35 program. Norway decided in 2008 that the F-35 will replace the current F-16 fighters. The first aircraft to be delivered up to 2019.
The u.s. air force declared the new stridsflyet “kampklart” in august, after a series of reports about budsjettoverskridelser and delays.
Lockheed Martin’s shares fell 2.5 percentage points Monday. Trump has several times resorted to Twitter to vent his rage against everything from the satireprogrammet Saturday Night Live to Boeing for the price of a new version of the presidentflyet Air Force One.
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Norway to buy up to 52 combat aircraft of the type F-35. Photo. Reuters / NTB scanpix Photo: NTB scanpix
“Fly in any weather”
In Israel was the delivery of the country’s first F-35 aircraft delayed on Monday because of bad weather. Two of the 50 Stealth destroyers, the land purchased was scheduled to arrive from Italy at 14 local time, but could not light because of the fog.
Lockheed Martin’s vice president informs the news agency AFP that the aircraft is able to ease in the bad weather, but says to news agency AFP that “there are only local regulations in Italy that makes that you have to have a certain aim before they allow departure”.
“the Planes have the most powerful radar on any of the planes in the day, so it’s certainly able to fly in all weather”.
A number of countries, including Norway, has ordered the planes. Israel, which receives more than three billion annually in the u.s. forsvarssubsidier, will be the first country with an operational F-35 squadron outside the united STATES.
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