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Patriot Missile Deal with Turkey in Jeopardy as US Fails to Block...
January 7, 2019 @ 01:36 PMThe United States attempt to sell Patriot missiles to Turkey appear to have hit a roadblock following Ankaras rejection of a US proposal that it cancel the impending purchase of the Russian S-400 air defence system. Last month, the US State Department issued a notice of sale of Patriot Missile System to Turkey worth $3
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US to Purchase Upgraded F-15X Fighters to Supplement F-35
December 31, 2018 @ 09:47 AMThe United States (US) Department of Defense (DoD) has announced plans to purchase 12 upgraded Boeing F-15X fighter aircraft worth 1.2 billion as a part of modernisation program of US Air Force's (USAF) legacy fighter fleet and to supplement growing fleet of fifth-generation fighter aircraft
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Israel Aerospace Launches F-35 Jet Wing Skins Production Line
December 31, 2018 @ 09:19 AMLockheed Martin has selected Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) as a sub-contractor to manufacture wing skins for F-35 fighter jets. IAI has launched a new production line for skins for the F-35 wings
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Lockheed Martin Wins $712 Million for Advanced Hardware to Support F-35 TR3
December 28, 2018 @ 09:17 AMLockheed Martin has won $712 million contract for the development of advanced hardware in support of the F-35 Lightning II Technology Refresh 3 (TR3) System. Efforts include the design of the TR3 System through full flightworthy certification, production readiness review, and fleet release to support low-rate initial production Lot 15 aircraft, the United States department of defense said in a statement Thursday
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Japan Plans Selling F-15 Jets to US to Fund F-35 Fighter Purchase
December 24, 2018 @ 11:31 AMThe Japanese government is considering selling some of its F-15 jets to the United States to raise funds for the purchase of F-35 stealth fighters. This would be the first sale of used defense equipment to the US, Washington in turn is eyeing to sell the outdated planes to Southeast Asian countries,
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Lockheed Martin to Reduce F-35 Fighter jet price to $80 Million by
December 21, 2018 @ 08:52 AMLockheed Martin will reduce the unit price of the F-35 jet to $80 million in 2020 from the current $89 million and is set to deliver more than 130 F-35s in 2019 to US and international customers The US Company delivered the 91st F-35 aircraft for the year, meeting the joint government and industry delivery target for 2018 and demonstrating the F-35 enterprise's ability to ramp to full rate production. The 91 deliveries in 2018 represent nearly a 40 percent increase from 2017 and about a 100 percent production increase compared to 2016
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Japan Plans to Buy 147 F-35 Fighters Jets in Next Decade
December 19, 2018 @ 11:45 AMIn what appears to be the largest F-35 order outside of the United States, Japan plans to buy 147 of the sixth generation stealth fighters in the next decade. The new planes will include 42 F-35Bs and will include 18 short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) B cariants of the F-35 that Tokyo wants to deploy on Japanese islands along the edge of East China Sea, Lockheed Martin said in a statement Tuesday
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Lockheed Martin, Universal Synaptics to Help US DoD tackle Warfighter Fault Anomalies
December 18, 2018 @ 09:38 AMLockheed Martin and Universal Synaptics Corporation have signed an agreement to help the United States Department of Defense (DoD) tackle an issue known as intermittent fault anomaly. A new automated testing technology, developed by Universal Synaptics, called Intermittent Fault Detection discovers random fault anomalies in multi-domain platform electronics as well as wiring harnesses
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Kongsberg Gruppen, Patria Acquire Aerospace Industrial Maintenance Norway
December 13, 2018 @ 12:00 PMThe Kongsberg group and Finnish defense group Patria together have entered into agreement with the Norwegian Ministry of Defence for the acquisition of Aerospace Industrial Maintenance Norway AS (AIM). AIM is the Norwegian armed forces business for maintenance, overhaul and upgrade of the Air Forces aircraft and helicopters
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Australian F-35 Fighter Jets Commence Squadron Service
December 10, 2018 @ 06:27 AMAustralia's first two locally-based F-35 fighter aircraft arrived at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Williamtown, signaling the start of equipping the RAAF with a total of 72 of the F-35 stealth jets. The F-35 will be utilizing its sensors and low observability to operate with impunity in contested airspace and fuse a picture of the battlespace for other air, land and sea assets, a Lockheed Martin release said
F-35 Conducts First Dual External Release of GBU-54 Laser Guided Bombs
U.S. Awards Contract for Taiwan’s F-16 Training Simulators
Latvia to Procure 42 ASCOD IFVs from Spain's General Dynamics Land Systems
Philippines' Marcos Offers to Return U.S. Missiles If China Stops Harassing its...
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