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Article: Britain Backs Joint Strike Fighter Effort
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- The Washington Post
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- January 18, 2001
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The British government agreed yesterday to commit $2 billion to
help develop the Joint Strike Fighter, endorsing the warplane program
with its checkbook just as the incoming Bush administration prepares
to consider making cuts.
Praising the program for everything from boosting both nations'
industrial bases to improving cooperation within NATO, Liz Symons,
Britain's weapons procurement minister, said the Joint Strike Fighter
is "a very important step forward in the relationship between our two
countries."
The program is an ambitious attempt to design one family of jets
that can play different roles for three branches of the U.S. military
and the British Royal Navy. Advisers to ...