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- Japan plans to buy at least 20 additional F-35A stealth fighters over the next six years, sources say.
- Japan will pay about $ 100 million per plane, and will get over 60 of the jets in total.
- Japanese military planners are also considering buying F-35Bs, the vertical takeoff and landing model which they could operate from their helicopter carriers.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to buy at least 20 additional F-35A stealth fighters over the next six years, some or all of which it may purchase directly from Lockheed Martin Corp <LMT.N> in the United States rather than assemble locally, three sources said.
“In view of budgets and production schedules a new acquisition of around 25 planes is appropriate,” said one of the sources with knowledge of the plan. The sources asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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