Singapore and the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter
Indications are that Singapore may go ahead with the purchase of the JSF. That would be a game-changer for its operational capabilities. India Needs a Joint Chiefs China’s New Stealth Fighter Gambit India’s New Mountain Strike Corps: Conventional Deterrence Singapore’s Maids: No Respite? India’s Soaring Fighter Ambition In a wide-ranging interview with the Defense Writers Group in late July, General Herbert J. "Hawk" Carlisle was asked about Singapore’s interest in the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and if an initial sale had been made. He had this to say: “I talked to their CDF (Singapore’s Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Ng) Chee Meng. I was just in Singapore. Singapore’s decided to buy the B model, the VSTOL variant to begin with. But I don’t know where they’re at in putting it into their budget. I know that’s a decision that’s been made and that’s why they’re part of the program, but I don’t know where t...