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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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Pratt & Whitney, IHI To Jointly Build Japan F135 Engines
November 7, 2013 @ 08:03 AMPratt & Whitney has signed a joint agreement with IHI Corporation to qualify components for the Japanese fleet of F135 engines to power the 5th generation F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. "Pratt & Whitney is proud of our long history of working together with IHI on military engines, starting with the F100 engine for the JASDF F-15 fleet more than 30 years ago," said Bennett Croswell, president, Pratt & Whitney Military Engines
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Boeing, Lockheed Martin Team Up For USAF Long-Range Strike Bomber Program
October 26, 2013 @ 11:47 AMThe Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin are teaming to compete for the US Air Force's Long-Range Strike Bomber program, with Boeing as the prime contractor. The companies bring expertise in integrating proven technologies, and their skilled workforces and critical infrastructure and scale, to meet the U
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Israel Completes Iron Beam Laser Weapon Development, IDF Delivery Imminent
Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
