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United Kingdom Looking Into Buy of Additional 26 F-35Bs

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

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United Kingdom Looking Into Buy of Additional 26 F-35Bs

Royal Air Force F-35Bs fly alongside Typhoon FGR4s in NATO’s Enhanced Vigilance Patrols in March after Russia's Feb. 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine (Royal Air Force Photo)

The United Kingdom has 48 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35B fighters under contract for delivery and is looking into the buy of another 26 to bring the U.K. inventory to 74, but the buy will depend upon sustainment cost reductions and the integration of U.K. weapons on the fighter. Last year, the U.K. conducted an Integrated Review [IR] and a Spending Review [SR] of future programs. "As part of our planning assumption in the IR and SR that we have just…

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