Germany Favors F-35s In Tornado Successor Rethinking

March 16, 2022
Lockheed Martin F-35
Germany’s planned fleet of F-35s will operate alongside Tranche 5-model Eurofighters, including aircraft locally adapted for the electronic warfare mission.
Credit: Tony Osborne/AW&ST
Hot on the heels of success in Finland and Switzerland, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 has won another European customer: Germany. Berlin’s reengagement with the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), three years after it was spurned in favor of Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet—partly as a concession to Franco-German...

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