The title is misleading. There never was an order, just an intent by the Portuguese Air Force to begin negotiations with Lockheed Martin.
Even this statement of giving up on the F-35 comes from a brief opinion by the outgoing portuguese defense minister in a newspaper interview.
The title is misleading. There never was an order, just an intent by the Portuguese Air Force to begin negotiations with Lockheed Martin. Even this statement of giving up on the F-35 comes from a brief opinion by the outgoing portuguese defense minister in a newspaper interview.