Britain close to placing order for 14 F-35s

British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed that an order for 14 F-35s will be placed soon.

“We will have to place a firm order very soon in order to have the first squadron ready to start flying training off the ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in 2018, which is our current plan,” he said in an interview with Reuters Television during the Munich Security Conference.

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