F-35 2.0: The Strategic Significance of Sustained Engagement
07/27/2019
By Robbin Laird
When I worked with a team supporting Rear Admiral George Huchting, the head of the Aegis program in the Navy during the mid-1990s, the challenge was to build upon the Japanese-U.S. working relationship with regard to Aegis to break ground for what we termed the Aegis global enterprise.
The Spanish purchased their first Aegis combat system for their F-100 program in 1996, and this was the first time the combat system went onboard a frigate.
And it is the Spanish frigate which became the nucleus of further sales to Norway and Australia, not an American hull form.
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