British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sent a letter to President Bush urging that he retain development of a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Reuters news service reports that an unnamed British official said the letter was sent shortly before Christmas. British defense contractor Rolls Royce is teamed with General Electric to produce an alternate JSF engine. It would seem that the imminent-demise speculation is correct. Of course, a prudent Pentagon would have foreseen a Blair attack and prepared the Administration for a British backlash, right
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Lockheed Martin says it delivered 191 F-35 fighters in 2025—just ahead of the goal it set for itself at the beginning of the year as it works to clear a backlog of jets in storage.
