Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft: Procurement
(asked on 12th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many F-35 fighter jets his Department plans to (a) buy and (b) have delivered to the UK in each year until 2040.
This question was answered on 18th May 2022
Deliveries of the remainder of the first tranche of 48 Lightning aircraft between 2023 and 2025 are shown in the following table:
2023 (LOT 15) - two airframes
2024 (LOT 16) - four airframes
2025 (LOT 17) - seven airframes
For the second tranche of Lightning aircraft, I refer the Rt. Hon Member to the Answer I gave to the Member for Islwyn on 9 December 2021 to Question 86564.