El parlamento holandés votó el pasado 20 de mayo de 2010, la cancelación del pedido de F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, y finalizar la participación de Holanda en el programa. También se voto una resolución dirigida al ministro de defensa, para que empiece a buscar un sustituto para los F-16. El elegido debe anunciarse en 2012.
La razón de la cancelación es el fuerte incremento de costes que está sufriendo el programa desde 2002.
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The Dutch Parliament’s Lower House voted yesterday to cancel the order for the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, and to stop Dutch participation in the program’s Initial Operational Test and Evaluation phase.
It also voted to direct the defense ministry to begin anew the Request for Proposal and the complete evaluation of the F-16 replacement program, for which a final decision is due in 2012.
The basis for yesterday’s vote is that the price estimates provided by Lockheed Martin in response to the original Request for Information of 2002, and the Supplemental Request for Information of 2008, are unreliable, as confirmed by the late 2009 reports of the US Joint Estimate Team and US Government Accountability Office.
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