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Friday, September 09, 2011

U.K. F-35 Work Expected To Remain Stable

F-35 Lightning IIThe U.K. defense industry will gain at least 15% of the value of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production work, even as the country’s own plans for how many of the stealth fighters to buy remain ill defined.

Peter Luff, the U.K. minister for defense equipment, technology and support, says the production work share also augurs well for the country’s industry to secure long-term services revenue.

“U.K. companies have already won JSF production contracts worth 15% by value of the work on each aircraft and are therefore well placed to win future maintenance and support work,” he tells Parliament.

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