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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Pentagon Official Says Int'l F-35 Orders Are 'Coming On'

A worsening global economy hasn't made much of a dent in the international sales prospects for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a Pentagon official told a defense industry conference this week.

USAF Maj. Gen. Charles Davis told the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington, DC orders for the advanced fighter aircraft "are coming on the schedule the deals were supposed to come on," despite economic concerns and rumblings from some quarters about the plane's abilities.

Great Britain -- which funded development of the aircraft, along with Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Australia -- is slated to commit to three F-35s in the next production batch, according to Davis.

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