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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Turkey Joins Lockheed's F-35 Program


F-35 1st Flight video from Lockheed Martin

Turkey is the fifth country to agree to participate in the production and continued development of a stealth fighter jet from Lockheed Martin Corp., the United States' largest military contractor said Friday.

The F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft is a multinational effort to build an affordable, supersonic stealth fighter, and is designed to replace a wide range of aircraft, according to a Lockheed Martin release.

The memorandum of understanding signed Thursday enables the Turkish aerospace and defense industry to compete for up to $10 billion in airframe components, electronics, cockpit displays and information systems software opportunities over the next 30 years.

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