Australian Defense Plan Confirms F-35s, Slips Service Entry

Australia’s latest defense capability plan (DCP), which sets out expenditures expected over the next four years, confirms its intent to buy at least 72 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters but slips initial operational capability (IOC) by up to five years, to 2017-19. The previous DCP, in 2006, set the...

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