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State Department Clears $6.5 Billion F-35A Sale to Poland

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

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State Department Clears $6.5 Billion F-35A Sale to Poland

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II at the 2018 Paris Air Show. Photo: Lockheed Martin

The State Department has approved a potential foreign military sale (FMS) worth $6.5 billion of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters to Poland, the department said Sept. 11. The sale, if approved by Congress, would include 32 of the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant in use by the Air Force, along with 33 Pratt & Whitney [UTX] F-135 engines and many F-35 subsystems, spares and repair parts, and logistics and training equipment. Lockheed Martin [LMT] builds the F-35. “This proposed sale will support the…

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