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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

U.S. may scrap F-35, slated to be Israel's future fighter jet

F-35 Lightning IIThe F-35, with stealth capabilities, is slated to replace an entire generation of jet fighters in the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps; Pentagon looking into other alternatives due to massive cost overruns.

Senior members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee last week instructed the Pentagon to come up with alternatives to the jet fighter of the future, the F-35, with the project facing massive cost overruns.

The plane has been selected as the future of the Israel Air Force, and for now there are no plans for an alternative if the American project is shelved.

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