Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft: Procurement

(asked on 26th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of the unit procurement cost for the F-35B following the reduction in the number of those aircraft procured by the United State Marine Corps; and what the current unit procurement cost is for the F-35B.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 3rd July 2020

The UK's first aircraft was delivered in 2012 for $161 million; today, the Lot 11 cost of an F-35B is $115.5 million. Future Lots will be subject to commercial negotiation.

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