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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Dutch request participation in Joint Strike Fighter testing

Dutch Deputy Defence Minister Cees van der Knaap on Tuesday asked his United States counterpart Gordon England to include the Netherlands as an equal partner in the testing phase of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The JSF is the successor of the F-16 fighter aircraft.

The Netherlands are one of two so-called level 2 partners in the Joint Strike Fighter programme, contributing some 800 million dollars to the aircraft development.

The Dutch are the third biggest non-US contributor to the programme, after Britain and Italy.

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