Germany Favors F-35s In Tornado Successor Rethinking

Tony Osborne 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...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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