[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/%C3%A9tats-unis-31/topic/croyez-vous-au-programme-jsf-144/?post=27151#post-27151]rafighter[/url] a dit le 24/06/2009 à 13:22 :[/b]

[quote]Brigadier General David R. Heinz, Programme Executive Officer for the F-35 Lightning II Programme in Arlington, VA., said on Friday that the sales numbers of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) could be doubled. By now the US together with eight partners already plan to buy more than 3,000 of the fifth-generation fighter. Additionally, the aircraft has high potential for export in countries such as Israel, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Finland and Spain, Brigadier General David R. Heinz said to Bloomberg Press. With this nation the total production could reach some 6,000 and more. Israel and Singapore have begun talks with the US government that could lead them to join the programme. Government talks have also begun on possible JSF sales with Finland, Spain, South Korea and Japan.“It’s entirely possible that by 2020 there will be only one surviving western fighter plane,” Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with Fairfax, Virginia-based Teal. “The F-35 is designed to do what the F-16 almost did: drive competing manufacturers out of the market.”...

http://www.defpro.com/news/details/8209[/quote]

[quote]Finland is among a number of countries engaged in government talks with Washington as a potential buyer of Lockheed-Martin's new F-35 strike fighter, US news group Bloomberg quoted Dan Crowley, the company's F-35 programme manager, as saying on Wednesday. Bloomberg also quoted Brigadier-General David Heinz, the top F-35 official at the US defence department, as saying that potential export customers included Finland. The Finnish Air Force had expressed interest in the F-35 last year. Colonel Juha Suonperä of the FAF dismissed the Bloomberg report as unfounded. "There are no talks whatsoever; neither the [defence] ministry nor the Air Force is in talks with anybody over fighter procurement," Col Suonperä said. He added that talks on replacing the FAF's current mainstay of F/A-18 aircraft in about 2030 would be initiated in about five years' time. 

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/106262/finland-denies-talks-on-jsf-purchase.html[/quote]

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