Canada scrapped a controversial sole-source plan to buy F-35 jets from Lockheed Martin Corp., saying it will now evaluate all available options for acquiring new fighters.
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The announcement on Dec. 12 is another challenge for the F-35, which has been hit by cost overruns and delays and at $396 billion is the costliest program in Pentagon procurement history. Canada’s Conservative government, stressing it could still buy the F-35 if it turns out to be the best option, will set up an independent panel to look at replacements for an aging fleet of CF-18 fighters, which are due to go out of service by 2020.
Ottawa said it would give the new independent panel a series of detailed guidelines to help it evaluate the contenders. Government sources said the main contenders for the Canadian fighter-jet order now are the F-35, Boeing Co’s F-18 Super Hornet and the EADS Eurofighter.
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