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BloombergEllen Milligan

UK Audit Office Flags £71 Billion F-35 Programme Cost and Persistent Readiness Gaps

The UK’s National Audit Office warns that the through-life cost of its F-35 Lightning II fleet for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy could exceed £70 billion, highlighting chronic availability shortfalls, technical delays—including a jet stuck in India—and carrier compatibility failures more than a decade into service.

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