Israel fears F-35 delivery will be delayed

Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Dec 5, 2011 Israeli military planners say they are increasingly worried that problems in Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will mean that delivery of 20 of the stealthy jets ordered in October 2010 for $2.75 billion will be delayed. If the delivery timetable is pushed back to later than 2017, senior military officers say the Israeli air force could