| Lockheed Martin Sees Sales Of Up To 6,000 Joint Strike Fighters |
| Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
WSJ
U.S. defense contractor Lockeed Martin Corp. (LMT) said Wednesday it has received 31 firm orders for its Joint Strike Fighter plane and foresees potential sales coming to 6,000.
"We have 31 production airplanes in backlog - that means in contract," Thomas Burbage, executive vice president of the JSF program, said at the Paris Air Show underway in Le Bourget.
Most of the orders have been placed by the U.S. government, along with two from the U.K., he added,
The JSF, or F-35, is a joint project grouping industries in the U.S., Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Turkey and Italy.
The $300 billion program is to replace the fleet of F-16 and F-18 fighter jets now in service in the second half of the next decade.
"Amongst the partnership, we are predicting somewhere around 3,100 airplanes," Burbage said. "Outside of that ... the potential for sales, which is problematical right now to estimate what that is, but it quite likely is somewhere between a thousand and more."
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