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Lockheed Martin F-35 Fighter Achieves Another Milestone: In-Flight Operation of Integrated Avionics...
December 10, 2008 @ 12:00 AMFORT WORTH, Texas --- Lockheed Martin's Cooperative Avionics Test Bed, or "CATBird," has begun in-flight integration and verification of the F-35 Lightning II mission systems suite, launching another stage of risk reduction for the world's newest fighter.>> The CATBird, a highly modified 737 airliner, will test the avionics suite thoroughly for several months before the complete system begins flying in an F-35 aircraft
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Fighter Achieves Another Milestone: In-Flight Operation of Integrated Avionics...
December 9, 2008 @ 12:00 AMFORT WORTH, Texas --- Lockheed Martin's Cooperative Avionics Test Bed, or "CATBird," has begun in-flight integration and verification of the F-35 Lightning II mission systems suite, launching another stage of risk reduction for the world's newest fighter.>> The CATBird, a highly modified 737 airliner, will test the avionics suite thoroughly for several months before the complete system begins flying in an F-35 aircraft
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Alenia Aeronautica and Lockheed Martin Present the F-35 JSF Cockpit Demonstrator
December 4, 2008 @ 12:00 AMTURIN, Italy --- Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, and Lockheed Martin have displayed today the Cockpit Demonstrator of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to civil and military authorities, representatives of the academic and entrepreneurial world and a wide public of university and technical schools students, during a ceremony held at the Ground Test Centre of Alenia Aeronautica, in Turin-Caselle.>> The F-35 Cockpit Demonstrator is the first fully representative, highly technological part of the new stealth aircraft - currently in the Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) phase at Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas - to be displayed...
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Australia to Change Its Mind About JSF?
November 28, 2008 @ 12:00 AMWe were aware of the Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon touring Europe and visiting Spain, getting briefed on Eurofighter by our friends of EADS CASA in Getafe.>> But now Australian media start to report about it
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Norway Recommends Lockheed Martin F-35, Multi-National JSF Partnership Remains Strong
November 24, 2008 @ 12:00 AMFORT WORTH, Texas --- Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has formally recommended to his country's Parliament that Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II be selected to fulfill Norway's future air-combat capability requirements.>> The F-35, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, was chosen based on its superior performance in "intelligence and surveillance, counter air, air interdict and anti-surface warfare," according to a statement from Norway's defense ministry
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Grand Opening in Kongsberg
November 24, 2008 @ 12:00 AMThe Norwegian government's decision to pick the American fighter craft F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace the F-16 put an extra dimension to the grand opening of Kongsberg's new facility for the manufacturing of advanced composite aerostructures in Kongsberg.>> The Minister of Defence Anne-Grete Strm-Erichsen, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Trade and Industry yvind Slke and Mayor of Kongsberg Vidar Lande performed the ribboncutting in front of about 100 guests
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Joint Strike Fighter Recommended to Replace the F-16
November 21, 2008 @ 12:00 AM>Norway has picked the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace its F-16 combat aircraft, and plans to buy 48. (Lockheed photo)The Minister of Defence recommends that the F-16 is replaced by the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Flies Supersonic
November 18, 2008 @ 12:00 AMFORT WORTH, Texas --- The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter flew supersonic for the first time yesterday, achieving another milestone. The aircraft accelerated to Mach 1
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Finnish Air Force Eyes F-35 As Future Mainstay -HS, YLE
November 13, 2008 @ 12:00 AMThe Finnish Air Force is keen on Anglo-American stealth strike fighter F-35 as a potential replacement of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18, the FAF's current mainstay, Finnish national daily Helsingin Sanomat and the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reported on Wednesday.>> HS and YLE quoted the FAF as saying that a political decision on replaceing the F/A-18s would ideally be made in 2015, that is, about half way through the fleet's service life
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Pratt & Whitney's F135 Completes Successful Engine Air Restart Testing on F-35
November 10, 2008 @ 12:00 AMEAST HARTFORD, Conn. --- Pratt & Whitney's F135 engine successfully completed engine restart testing at Edwards Air Force Base, CA
Ukrainian Drone Attacks Target Russian Oil Refineries
Turkey Offers Aksungar Drones to U.S. For Watching Over Mexican Border
Denmark to Reorient Patrol Ships Design for Arctic Operations
UAE's Edge Signs Contract with Hungary to Supply CARACAL Sniper Rifles
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