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F-35 Aircraft: Weapons

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 16 April 2026UIN 124234

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 25 March 2026 to question 121671 on F-35 Aircraft: Weapons, what is the difference between the Israeli F-35 weapons integration and the Royal Air Force F-35.

Answered by Luke Pollard

The UK F-35 programme is managed through a US Government F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) based in the USA.

Israel is out-with the F-35 partner nation program and the UK does not have access to Israeli F-35 weapons integration information and therefore is unable to offer a comparison.

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