JSF Cost Predictions Rattle Foreign Customers

By David A. Fulghum, Graham Warwick, Robert Wall, Alon Ben-David .
Washington, Washington, London, Tel Aviv .

Customers for Lockheed-Martin’s stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—among them Canada, Israel, Britain and Australia—are shifting their mood from anxiety to paranoia over increasingly unpredictable costs.

Foreign analysts now expect JSF prices to significantly exceed even the latest Pentagon estimate, putting government officials in fiscal and political jeopardy as they ...

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