Norway Goes Wobbly on JSF

Posted on: Nov. 28th, 2005 || Source: defensenews.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Norway, which once expected to buy Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) to replace its Air Force’s aging F-16s, is now looking at other options, particularly the Eurofighter Typhoon.

The country, which is contributing $15 million a year to the U.S.-led effort to develop the JSF, provisionally earmarked $8 billion to buy several dozen aircraft. But the new Labor-led government elected in October is reopening the debate.

“There appears to be a feeling out there that a decision to purchase F-35 aircraft was as good as a done deal,” said Espen Barth Eide, the Defense Ministry’s undersecretary of state.

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