Australia [taxpayers] to pay more for fighter jets

February 22, 2010 by admin

(SMH) The Joint Strike Fighter program will cost Australia more than originally planned and be delayed by about a year, the US government says. Australia will buy 14 of the jets from the US and may purchase up to 100, but the Pentagon said on Monday the price - as much as $100 million each - would rise. [..] Australia has already been forced to buy Super Hornets to fill the capability gap between the retirement of the F1-11 bombers and F/A-18 Hornet fighter bombers and the arrival of the first JSF, which was scheduled for 2014. read more