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Canada's announcement earlier this month that it was $4$4 for renewing its fleet seems to have prompted a string of reassuring moves by the U.S.
Within days the Pentagon said it would sign a $4 worth $3.8 billion.
That move could also have been spurred along when Australia followed the Canadian news with plans to $4 if it saw any more delays in the F-35 program.
On the heels of the new contract came word $4 that pilots would begin training to fly the F-35 at Eglin, AFB starting January 2013.
And that news came just before $4 that the freshly trained pilots can plan on duty stations at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, which will be the first F-35 overseas base in the world.
All of that is good news for Lockheed Martin and its investors who now $4 following about 10 years of four percent profits during the F-35's development phase.
All of this comes after years of extensive efforts to recruit foreign F-35 buyers.
$4 when Norway finally joined the list of buyers, after "an extended dialogue with the US Department of