On the company FACO in Italian Cameri solemn ceremony of the beginning of the first assembly “European” F-35A for the Netherlands Air Force, According to the press service of the Defense Ministry of the country. Expected, that the assembly of the new fifth-generation fighter will be completed in February 2019 until the end of the year he joins the ranks of the Air Force of the country of tulips. The first combat unit, equipped with the F-35A, becomes 322 th Fighter Squadron of the Netherlands Air Force, posted at the airbase Leeuwarden.
first F-35A, collected in Italy
The Netherlands is one of the major partners in the framework of the F-35 fifth-generation fighter development program and 2002 a year to invest in the aircraft around 800 million. euro. Currently, the Air Force of this country produced in the United States, two F-35, which are tested in California. Overall, the Netherlands planned to buy 85 F-35 aircraft, but because of the increased price for it, We decided to purchase all 37 machines to replace the standing armed with the F-16 "Fighting Falcon".
Enterprise FACO in Cameras, which are assembled “European” F-35 aircraft, not only collects the planes themselves, but also makes the wings for them. according to information, the company owned by the Ministry of Defense of Italy, and was created to build the aircraft with a conventional takeoff and landing F-35A and F-35B variants with short takeoff and vertical landing. Overall, the plant is supposed to build 30 F-35B and 60 F-35A for the Italian Air Force, and 29 F-35A for the Netherlands Air Force. Another eight aircraft for the Air Force of the Netherlands will be made in the United States, transmits TSAMTO.
