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Israel to buy U.S. F 35 fighters worth an estimated 2.75 billion.

Jerusalem : Israel | Sep 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM PDT

By northsunm32

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This is small potatoes compared to the 9 billion that Canada will be paying for 65 of the planes. But Israel will not pay the bill in any event. It will be the U.S. taxpayer since the planes will all be funded as part of U.S. military aid to Israel. Of course no doubt U.S. politicians who have Lockheed Martin related facilities in their areas will praise the job creation involved.

Even though Israel is not footing the bill the high cost of the planes made the deal controversial among Israeli defense officials. These costs have been questioned in the U.S. as well. The planes are not even expected to be delivered until 2015 and that assumes things go as scheduled.

No doubt Israel was pressured by the U.S. to buy the planes. The U.S. also sold fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. No doubt the U.S. pointed out that buying the stealth fighter would put Israel ahead of the Saudis in military capabilities.

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Built by U.S. based Lockheed Martin. Israel has bought a number of the planes.

northsunm32 is based in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

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