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Undated: Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and their allies. After a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35, a final design was chosen based on the X-35. This is the F-35 Lightning II, which will replace various tactical aircraft, including the US F-16, A-10, F/A-18A-D, AV-8B and British Harrier GR7, GR9s, and Tornado GR4. The projected average annual cost of this program is $12.5 billion with an estimated program life-cycle cost of $1.1 trillion.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_program
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October 31: Lockheed-Martin has won the largest military contract ever, a possible $200 billion competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter.
Air Force Secretary Jim Roche said on the basis of strengths, weaknesses and degrees of risk of the program that the Lockheed-Martin team was the winner on a "best- value" basis. He said Lockheed-Martin was a clear winner over the team led by Boeing.
https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44605
-- 2016 --
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November 9: Joint Strike Fighter Contract To Boost Hunter Jobs
Hundreds of millions of dollars will flow into the Hunter, off the back of news Australia will handle maintenance and repairs for the Joint Strike Fighter in the Asia Pacific.
BAE Systems Australia is one of the companies that will handle the task, and says it has plans to hire hundreds of new staff.
https://www.f35.com/global/news-detail/australia-news/http-www.nbnnews.com.au-2016-11-09-joint-strike-fighter-contract-to-boost
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February 27: Joint Strike Fighter: Multi-billion-dollar F-35 lands in Australia for first time
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-27/joint-strike-fighters-f35-land-in-australia/8308498
October 11: Joint Strike Fighter plans stolen in Australia cyber attack
A hacker stole non-classified information about Australia’s Joint Strike Fighter program and other military hardware last year after breaching the network of a defense contractor, the defense industry minister said...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence-cyber/joint-strike-fighter-plans-stolen-in-australia-cyber-attack-idUSKBN1CH00F
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July 27: WTF-35: How the Joint Strike Fighter Got to Be Such a Mess
The story of the F-35, and what went wrong to put the Joint Strike Fighter so far over budget and behind schedule.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a21957/wtf-35/
September 19: The Mangled Myths Dogging the Joint Strike Fighter
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/09/19/the_mangled_myths_dogging_the_joint_strike_fighter_113812.html
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April 25: Check Out the X-32 Fighter -- The air force passed. Here's why.
On October 26, 2001, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that Lockheed Martin’s X-35 had won the Joint Strike Fighter contest over Boeing’s X-32.
The fundamental issue with the Joint Strike Fighter was that is was always an overambitious program to replace multiple specialized types with one aircraft in the hope that it could perform every role equally well. The result is predictably a jack-of-all-trades but master of none.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/was-boeings-version-f-35-check-out-x-32-fighter-54757
-- 2020 --
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