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(Scroll down for video) Israel will be the first country in the world to take delivery of the most advanced military fighter jet, according to a statement released by Lockheed Martin.
The Israeli Air Force is already starting to prepare the runways after the Lockheed Martin vice president, Steve O'Bryan, said this week that Israel will be the first country in the world to receive the F-35 stealth fighter aircraft.
The state-of-the-art fighter jet, the first of which are scheduled to be delivered to Israel in late 2016, is also expected to be equipped with an Israeli add-ons.
O'Bryan said that Lockheed Martin was considering adding removable fuselages for the aircraft manufactured by the Israeli company Cyclone, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, mainly because the add-on does not harm the stealth capabilities of the aircraft. In practical terms, this means that the plane would have a longer flight range while remaining invisible to enemy radar.
The first batch of 20 versatile, single-engine F-35s, was ordered by Israel in October 2010 at a cost of $2.75 billion, and they are expected to arrive in 2016 at the earliest, but the Air Force is already creating new infrastructure for the stealth aircraft.
The Israeli military began building new bomb-proof underground airports to accommodate the F-35s.Mobile video not loading? Click here to view
