The Netherlands will buy 37 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters (JSF), the Dutch government announced on 18 September. The announcement came with the yearly publication of government spending plans and ended 15 years of political debate on the replacement for the country's Lockheed Martin F-l 6 multirole fighters. The country has assigned a budget of EUR4.5 billion (USD6 billion) for the purchase and a yearly support fund of EUR270 million from 2019.
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