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Old 14th Feb 2013, 17:47
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Here (Google Translate is your friend) is the Dutch defense ministry letter:

http://www.ftm.nl/upload/content/fil...20Defensie.pdf

Basically, here's the story:

2008 - Cloggies decide to buy two JSFs that will be delivered by 2013 in time to support IOT&E for Block 3, which they are told will start in 2013.

2008-12 - Various opposition pols attempt to kill buy on the grounds of delays and cost increases. Defense ministry assures them that all is well. AN-1 is rolled out at Fort Worth and flies, no delivery.

2013 - Defense ministry admits that IOT&E will not start until 2015 (absolute earliest) and that the two jets (total cost over a quarter of a billion dollars) may be stuck in a hangar until then.

Oh, and from 2009...

http://www.jsfnieuws.nl/wp-content/D...ripen_2009.pdf
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