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Turkey To Buy Additional F-35 JSF Aircraft
September 4, 2012 @ 12:00 AMTurkey is expected to order a second pair of jointly-made, next-generation, stealth F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II aircraft to be delivered by 2016. The first pair of the jets are expected to be delivered in 2015
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Lockheed Martin To Help Improve F-35 Aircraft For Israel
August 29, 2012 @ 12:00 AMLockheed Martin has been awarded a $206 million contract from the U.S DoD to support the F-35A Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) Air System for Israel under the Foreign Military Sales Program
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Boeing To Design Rocket-Propelled Bomb For USAF In Concept Development Contract
August 17, 2012 @ 12:00 AMBoeing has been awarded a $1.4 million contract by the USAF to help design a rocket-propelled bomb for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter-bomber that can attack and destroy enemy bunkers, tunnel complexes, and other important deeply buried targets
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F-35 Lightning II Fires First Bomb, Completes Test
August 10, 2012 @ 12:00 AMThe F-35 Lightning II completed its first airborne weapons separations when it effectively released a weapon in flight. BF-3, a short take-off and vertical landing F-35 variant, executed an inert 1,000-pound GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range while traveling at 400 knots at an altitude of 4,200 feet
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Alenia Aermacchi Rolls Out Singapore’s First M-346 Advanced Trainer
August 8, 2012 @ 12:00 AMThe Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will soon receive its first M-346 advanced trainer from Alenia Aermacchi. ST Aerospace, the prime contractor, teamed with Alenia Aermacchi and Boeing in 2010 to supply 12 M-346 aircraft and ground based training system for the RSAF’s Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) programme
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UK’s Tornados To Retire In 2019
August 6, 2012 @ 12:00 AMBy the end of this decade, the UK’s Royal Air Force will have phased out the Panavia Tornado GR4 to make room for the Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II. The British Forces Broadcasting Service reported on August 3 that the “R4 bomber will leave service in March 2019 after featuring in every conflict since the first Gulf War”
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Lockheed Completes JASSM Integration On F-15E With Flight Test
July 27, 2012 @ 12:00 AMLockheed Martin today announced that the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) recently completed F-15E platform integration with a successful all-up round (AUR) flight test. The successful AUR test marked the first time JASSM, or any missile, has been integrated onto a platform using the Universal Armament Interface (UAI)
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Pentagon, Lockheed Reach F-35 Aircraft Deal
July 27, 2012 @ 12:00 AMLockheed Martin has won a $450 million deal from the Pentagon to enhance electronic warfare equipment on the F-35 fighter jet, and integrate Israeli-unique systems beginning in 2016. The deal is expected to be finalized in next few weeks, a huge leap in Israel's $2
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Turkey’s Defense Purchases to Reach $8 billion by 2016
July 27, 2012 @ 12:00 AMTurkey will spend up to $8 billion in defense purchases as its exports will reach $2 billion in 2016, four years from now, according to a major estimation by the procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM). The present figures are around half of that
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Finally some good news for F-35, UK Accepts First International Lightning Fighter
July 20, 2012 @ 12:00 AMThe United States has handed over its first Joint Strike Fighter jet F-35 Lightning II to Britain, marking its first international delivery after years of trouble with the program. The U
Denmark to Reorient Patrol Ships Design for Arctic Operations
UAE's Edge Signs Contract with Hungary to Supply CARACAL Sniper Rifles
Russian Su-57 Jet to Set the Skies on Fire at Aero India
U.S. Navy Deploys New AI-powered System to Detect Houthi Threats in Red...
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
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U