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Australia [taxpayers] to pay more for fighter jets

February 22, 2010 by admin

New Planes for Australia(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

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