A day after Chinese hackers took the rap for a cyber attack against Australia and stealing designs for a new spy HQ, Australias Prime Minister Julia Gillard called the reports “inaccurate”. Gillards statement further strengthens Chinas consistent denials of any state-sponsored hacking against the West
The U.S Congress is seeking an independent software experts team to review the development of software for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has ordered Pentagon to establish it
With Seoul expected to pick a winning bidder for its fighter aircraft program, Boeing says that it will provide the customized version of the F-15 to South Korea at a reasonable prices in an effort to sway the contract its way. Boeing will offer "a highly capable, yet low-risk, affordable Silent Eagle on a schedule that meets the ROK (Republic of Korea) requirements," Bob Ciesla, the vice president of the F-15 and F-22 program was quoted as saying
EADS is offering a $2 billion investment as it gears up to compete against U.S rivals for a contract to provide 60 advanced fighter planes to South Korea
Lockheed Martin's F-35 program, the costliest fighter aircraft in the world, just got a little less expensive. The U
The U.S Air Force will put the F-35s into operational use by mid-2016, with a similar software package as the Marine Corps
The latest in a series of Lockheed Martin F-35A high angle of attack (AOA) testing was recently completed, the company announced. The testing accomplished high AOA beyond both the positive and negative maximum command limits, including intentionally putting the aircraft out of control in several configurations
Danish officials recently stated that its expecting to settle on its next-generation fighter design by mid-2015. “I dont sense any weaknesses in having this decision,” Gen
Britains Defence Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday hinted that the UK may not now buy 90 F-35 jets as it has originally planned. Hammond has now pledged that the first 48 aircraft on order at a cost of around £100m each would be bought to service the new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers from 2020
Lockheed Martin intends to provide long-term maintenance support for the F-35 Lightning II with a new Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), cited as a risk in a recent study, in line with the evolving aircraft. Known as the F-35s information technology backbone for data collection, data analysis and decision support, the ALIS receives aircraft health and maintenance information from F-35s in flight via radio-frequency downlink