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Lockheed Martin F-35 To Cost Less Than Its Fourth Generation Fighters
December 19, 2013 @ 09:18 AMThe Pentagons most expensive fighter aircraft program, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, will cost operators “less than any fourth generation fighter in the world”. According to Lorraine Martin, general manager for the JSF, “By 2019, the F-35A (the Air Force version) will cost $85 million when counting future inflation
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Japan Plans Osprey Aircrafts Purchase: Report
December 16, 2013 @ 03:45 PMJapan's Self-Defense Forces will acquire 17 of the U.S Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft over five years from next April, according to Global Post
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First F-35 Centre Fuselage Delivered To Northrop Grumman
December 12, 2013 @ 12:46 PMTurkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has delivered its first F-35 Lightning II centre fuselage to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin at a ceremony held at TAI's facilities in Ankara, Turkey yesterday. The centre fuselage will be installed into a U S Air Force aircraft at Lockheed Martins facilities in Fort Worth, Texas
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USAF Plans A-10 Thunderbolt II Retirement: Report
December 12, 2013 @ 10:14 AMThe US Air Force is considering retiring A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet, called "Warthog" – first designed as a tank buster to target Soviet armored vehicles in the early 1970s, due to budget constraints. The Defense Department faces $1 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade, half of them due to automatic reductions in spending known as sequestration
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US Readies New Large Spy Drone
December 9, 2013 @ 01:46 PMAn unmanned spy drone with a wingspan larger than that of a Boeing 737, the recently revealed RQ-180 UAV, seeks to extend US airpower dominance over countries equipped with stealth detection capabilities. A recent report in Aviation Week pulled the curtains off the RQ-180, a US$2 billion program, whose existence is acknowledged neither by its developer Northrop Grumman nor the Pentagon
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Lockheed Martin To Showcase New Training Technologies At I/ITSEC 2013
December 3, 2013 @ 12:58 PMLockheed Martin will demonstrate the latest advancements in simulation and training for the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Dec. 2-5
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Korean Lawmakers Want Tech Transfer, Local Assembly in F-35 Deal
November 29, 2013 @ 08:55 AMKorean lawmakers are urging the government to renegotiate the purchase of 40 Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters by including technology transfer and local assembly in US$7.2 billion deal
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Korea To Buy Aerial Refueling Tanker Next Year
November 28, 2013 @ 03:19 PMKorea will pick an aerial refueling aircraft next year with a goal of deploying it by 2017 with the tender to be announced in January, 2014. The total cost will be about $1 billion (W1 trillion) for four refueling tankers between 2017 and 2019
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S. Korea To Buy Lockheed Martin F-35 Jets From 2018
November 22, 2013 @ 09:38 AMSouth Korea will purchase 40 Lockheed Martin's F-35A stealth fighters from 2018, with an option to buy 20 more later, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) was quoted as saying by Yonhap News. JCS Chairman Choi Yun-hee held a meeting of top commanders to approve the plan to buy the 40 F-35 Block 3s, which are capable of conducting air-to-air and air-to-ground missions with internal carriage and external stations for missiles and bombs
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RAAF's F-35A On Track For Delivery
November 14, 2013 @ 01:24 PMAustralia's first F-35A – commonly known as the Joint Strike Fighter is on track to be operational in 2020, according to New Air Combat Capability Project Manager Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Kym Osley. AVM Osley was at the F-35A manufacturing plant Fort Worth in Texas recently when the RAAFs first F-35A came together
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
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Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U