MUNICH — >As part of discussions between Belgium and US giant Lockheed Martin for a potential deal covering 11 additional F-35A fifth-generation fighter jets, Brussels is pushing hard for hefty domestic industrial returns, according to the country’s defense minister.
“We want to make the F-35 as European as possible, and there’s a lot of opportunities and possibilities” when it comes to securing an agreement on local supply chain financial gains, Theo Francken told Breaking Defense today on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “We have to produce it in Cameri” Air Base in northern Italy he added, home to final assembly of Italian and Dutch F-35 jets.
Francken held a meeting with Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet, to discuss the plan today, and said that a…
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