Written questions

F-35 Aircraft: Weapons

Commons · Question 124234 · Tabled 26 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 16 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 25 March 2026 to question 121671 on F-35 Aircraft: Weapons, what is the difference between the Israeli F-35 weapons integration and the Royal Air Force F-35.

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 16 Apr 2026

The UK F-35 programme is managed through a US Government F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) based in the USA.Israel is out-with the F-35 partner nation program and the UK does not have access to Israeli F-35 weapons integration information and therefore is u...