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With a budget of about 4.5 billion euros ($5.82 billion) to replace the F-16s, the Netherlands can only afford 33 to 35 F-35s, the source said, citing estimates from the General Auditor's office, which checks the government spends public funds as intended.
Pour souffler les feuilles mortes tombées sur le pont d'envol, c'est ça?ogotaï a écrit
Une vidéo où je commence (enfin !) à comprendre l'intérêt d'un VSTOL par rapport à un appareil catapulté
After months of angst, it appears that Tarrant County's major defense programs, the F-35 joint strike fighter and the V-22 Osprey, may avert the harsh spending cuts on the horizon in Washington – at least for now.
The Obama administration has proposed a $526.6 billion defense budget that sets aside $8.4 billion for Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth-based F-35 in the next fiscal year, similar to the allocation for fiscal 2013.
"Pentagon policymakers have decided that they're going to protect the F-35 program," said Loren B. Thompson, an aerospace analyst at the Lexington Institute, a public-policy think tank in Arlington, Va.
Still, with so much already invested, the F-35 is here to stay, experts say. "There's really no way from walking away from this program. … The government has to make it work" (…)