It has been one of the winter and spring’s most talked about issue in Denmark – which of the three fighter planes that the government would choose to replace the country’s aging air force fleet.
The final battle has stood between the current F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from Lockheed Martin, the European Eurofighter and the US Super Hornet from Boeing.
campaigning and lobbying has been going into the last and not least, Boeing has brought attention when they are without competition has been the largest advertiser in Danish newspapers in the spring – with full-page advertisements among other things promised 10 000 Danish jobs if their Super the horn would win.
fact that the F-35 plane that now looks to have won the battle, the only of the three that was not the covenant of counter-trade rules would benefit the Danish industry. It is also the only one that is not fully developed. Observers therefore believe that Denmark is now taking a risk when you do not know exactly what you get.
On the other hand, the F-35 the most advanced level of the three, and – not least – the plane many other NATO countries buy and plan the US wants to Denmark to buy.
But the F-35 is also the most expensive plane of the three and the total of 27 planes, according to Danish media to be purchased will cost almost 30 billion DKK, and another 60 billion in maintenance during the plan’s lifetime .
The bid is for the money to be collected within the regular defense budget, which had among other NATO to worry that Denmark might be overspending – in what promises to be the largest public investment ever in Denmark.
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