Israel's 'Custom' F-35 Stealth Fighter: A Lethal, High-Tech Wonder Weapon?

The National Interest 9 hours ago 

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Israel is practically a launch customer for the American-designed F-35 stealth fighter. The Jewish state plans on declaring its first squadron of the radar-evading jet combat-ready by the end of 2017. That’s just two years after the U.S. Marine Corps’ declaration of war-readiness for its F-35s — and one year later than the U.S. Air Force’s own planned introduction of the new plane. And Israel’s F-35s will be unique. While most foreign customers of the stealth fighter plan to operate fairly standard F-35s, Tel Aviv is heaping its own special tech onto the airframe. And that’s not the only way in which Israel’s F-35s will be unique. The country should also possess a regional F-35 monopoly for at ...