Captioned by the national captioning initute www. Ncicap. Org elcome to defense news. Strike fighter is the Worlds Largest military program ever. The United States and its partners have spent 20 years developing three versions of the supersrsonic jet replace several existing fighters. Ththe pentagon plans to buy abot 2400. That will cost about 1. 4 trillion to buy and operate over the next six decades. As with many ambitious programs, costs soared as requirementnts expanded, challenges group, and delivery scheduleslipped. Restructuring to cut costs as a top priority for dod a Lockheed Martin. Aircraft were to travel to britain for the International Debut at the Royal International air tattoo and airshow next week. Annvestigation into a june 3 fire, prompted deity to ground all 100 on july 3 starting a race to identify the problem and get the planes safely back in the air to continue testing and to the u. K. In time for th shows. We sat down for an exclusive interview with the air force
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