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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

UK's F-35 variant switch wasted £100 million

F-35B Lightning II |The UK's roughly 18-month dalliance with acquiring the C-model carrier variant of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter "was rushed and based upon incomplete and inaccurate policy development", and ultimately wasted £100 million ($157 million), according to a new report.

"The decision in 2010 to change to the carrier variant of the Joint Strike Fighter was the largest single procurement decision in the Strategic Defence and Security Review," the House of Commons defence committee says in its 5 February Defence Acquisition document.

However, the choice to move away from the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B was "rushed and based upon incomplete and inaccurate policy development [and] taken without the MoD understanding how the change could be implemented," it states.

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