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Old November 9th, 2006, 09:19 PM
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"Next Generation Fighter-Bomber. Nine nations are partnering in the F-35’s System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase: The United States, United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Australia."

Turkey is going to buy 100 jets, some parts of them will be produced in Turkey. The cost of that purchase is about 10 billion dollars. I don't know how much it will cost for the U.S.

An interesting characteristic of F-35: "Lockheed Martin developed the idea for a Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) lift system that uses a vertically oriented Shaft Driven Lift Fan (SDLF)."

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They say the operating cost of the plane will be low but I must say that modern war will cost too much...
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