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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

F-35’s first battle will be over sales

At Lockheed Martin’s mile-long manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, the world’s newest fighter aircraft is taking shape.

The F-35 Lightning II – or Joint Strike Fighter as it was known at its inception – is the defence company’s most ambitious project yet and at an estimated cost of $300bn the programme is the most expensive in military history.

It could also take on another historical significance: this supersonic, fifth-generation stealth fighter is widely expected to be the last manned fighter aircraft ever built – among the western powers, at least.

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