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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Lockheed Martin offers F-35 fighters to Denmark

F-35 Lightning IILockheed Martin Corp. is setting its sights on Denmark as the next prospective European buyer of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters as the world's largest defense company seeks to replicate the sales success of its F-16.

Denmark, which participated in the F-35's development phase, will initiate a fighter competition toward the year's end, and a decision is likely in 2014, said Steve O'Bryan, the company's program vice president.

The Netherlands committed this week to buying the F-35, the world's most expensive weapons program, joining Norway in recreating a group of European states that jointly bought F-16s in the 1970s. Denmark and Belgium rounded out the partnership.

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