Workers prepare a F-35 joint strike fighter four days before the opening of the 47th Paris Air Show at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, June 14, 2007. REUTERS/Pascal RossignolFrom Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the game-changing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in early production stages, rival manufacturers are racing against time.
The F-35 may be regarded almost as much as an industrial and coalition-building policy as a warplane made by Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales and the world's largest aerospace company.
It is a projected trillion-dollar enterprise designed to dominate the lucrative global fighter market for decades while plugging its buyers into U.S.-built defense architecture and cementing U.S.-led alliances.
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