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UK could abandon the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project

Washington, USA - The British representative's speech at US Senate

Yesterday, during an hearing at the US Senate’s Defence Commission, convoked by Republican Senator John Warner, Lord Peter Drayson, British Minister for Military Procurement, made known that his country could abandon the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project whether US Executive will confirm the one-sided cuts to the plan. USA’s plans should establish a decrease of Great Britain’s industrial and techn...

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Rome, Italy, 03/16/2006 12:46
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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