US defence budget scraps second F-35 engine

Published: Mon Feb 6th, 2006
Source: today.reuters.co.uk



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Over Britain's objections, President George W. Bush's 2007 defence budget scraps a $2.4 billion (1.4 billion pounds) contract with General Electric and Rolls-Royce to develop a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a top programme official said on Monday.

The new F-35 radar-evading aircraft, the Pentagon's costliest warplane project, is intended to replace a wide range of U.S. and foreign fighter jets.

"The GE motor is not in the president's budget," Brig. Gen. C.R. Davis, deputy programme executive officer for the JSF programme, told Reuters in a telephone interview. "That's the only major change to our budget," he added.
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