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Friday, May 23, 2008

IDF seeks American approval to buy 25 F-35 stealth fighters

Defense Minister Ehud Barak submitted an official request this week to the U.S. government to purchase 25 F-35 stealth warplanes for the Israel Air Force.

According to reports in the U.S. media, the planes will cost about $80 million each.

Israel wants to receive the first squadron in 2013 and 2014, and continue with another 50 planes afterward, most likely in the second half of that decade.

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