(Globes) Yuval Azulai - Lockheed Martin Israel CE Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Joshua Shani estimates that Israel will have two F-35 squadrons of 25 planes each by 2022. The money for them is included in the new U.S. military aid to Israel over the coming decade. Israel insisted on replacing some of the original systems on the F-35 with systems made by Israeli defense companies in order to adapt the planes' performance to the IDF's needs. "They realized that Israel...wants its own special systems that no one else knows about....All the Israeli requests have been accepted: all the electronic warfare, command and control, and communications systems installed in the plane are Israeli-made."
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