Israel is in talks to build the wings for about a quarter of the United States’s new F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, an Israeli official said on Monday.

Lockheed Martin currently plans to build some 3,200 F-35s costing about $96 million each.

An Israeli official who declined to be named said state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries would build the wings.

“We are in advanced talks for the IAI to produce around 800 sets of wings,” he told Reuters.

Lockheed Martin declined to comment on the details of a possible deal involving the aircraft, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). (Read more from reuters.com)

Why the hell do we need 3,200 Joint Strike Fighters? Can we afford 3,200 Joint Strike Fighters? Would they have stopped the 9/11 attacks? Will they protect my liberties? No, they won’t. In fact, they’ll further violate my liberty, because I’m forced to pay for them with my labor. This is nothing but a transfer of wealth from the American public to the military industries of the United States and Israel.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 4:10 am and is filed under Israel Lobby, War Without End.