Finland Orders 64 Lockheed F-35 Fighter Jets for $9.4 Billion

A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft is seen at the ILA Air Show in Berlin, on April 25, 2018. Axel Schmidt/Reuters

HELSINKI/WASHINGTON—Finland has chosen U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighters to replace aging F/A-18 combat jets and plans to order 64 planes with weapons systems in a $9.4 billion deal, the government said on Friday.

Lockheed Martin competed in a tender for the deal with Sweden’s Saab, U.S. rival Boeing, France’s Dassault, and Britain’s BAE Systems.