The Lot 18 F-35 contract awarded to Lockheed Martin on december 20th 2024 speaks about "15 F-35A aircraft and one F-35B aircraft for F-35 non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) program partners" ( also see https://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php ... start=2745).
This is different than "Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers".
Is there an idea which enduser this might be?
F-35 Undisclosed non-program partners
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Re: F-35 Undisclosed non-program partners
Total of aircraft from that lot that will be delivered to the program partners (UK, NL, Italy, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway - list taken from Wikipedia).
So your title is not correct. It is not non-program partners, it is program partners that are non-US DoD.
So your title is not correct. It is not non-program partners, it is program partners that are non-US DoD.