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Has India Bought A 4.5 Generation Rafale Fighter For The Price Of...
September 23, 2016 @ 02:31 PMIndia has bought 36 Rafale fighters for $8.8 billion costing an average of $240 million apiece with weapons, spares and support which is in comparison to the price of a fifth generation F-35 fighter aircraft
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Cobham To Provide Radio Frequency Micro-electronics For F-35 Fighters
September 21, 2016 @ 08:47 AMCobham has received orders worth tens of millions of dollars for radio frequency microelectronics for F-35 fighter jet program. "Our portfolio of microelectronic components and assemblies enable electronic warfare and radar system sensitivity, helping pilots achieve mission success by maintaining situational awareness and staying safe," said Jill Kale, president of Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Tuesday
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Boeing Demands Denmark Part with Fighter Evaluation Information
September 16, 2016 @ 09:10 AMBoeing has submitted to the Danish Ministry of Defence a Request for Insight, which requires the former to provide all materials related to the fighter procurement evaluation and decision announced in June this year. This is the first step toward bringing a formal legal challenge of the Danish MoDs evaluation regarding the countrys next fighter jet in which it selected Lockheed Martins F-35 over the Boeing F/A-18
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Raytheon Standard Missile-6 Linked With F-35 Knocks Down Target In First Test
September 15, 2016 @ 01:11 PMRaytheon Standard Missile-6 linked with an F-35 fighter has destroyed a medium-range, medium-altitude, subsonic target in the US Navys first flight test. The USS Desert Ship (LLS 1), a land-based US Navy Combat System equipped with the latest AEGIS Baseline, fired the SM-6, which intercepted the over-the-horizon target, out of sight of its operators
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Integrates With Aegis Combat System In First Live Missile...
September 13, 2016 @ 04:35 PMLockheed Martins F-35 Lightning II and and the Aegis weapon system worked together for the first time during a live-fire exercise. The joint exercise Monday between the company, the U
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China To Deploy 36 J-20 Stealth Fighters By 2018
August 31, 2016 @ 12:54 PMEven as Japan has announced the deployment of US-made F-35 Stealth fighters, Chinese media has claimed that the home-grown stealth aircraft, the J-20 has completed its research and development phase and is entering the stage of mass production. The production is slated at two fighters per month and at this rate, China may be able to deploy 36 J-20 fighters by early 2018
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Japan Air Self Defense Force’s F-35A Makes First Flight
August 29, 2016 @ 08:22 PMThe first Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) F-35A has completed its maiden flight last week. The jet, known as AX-1, took off at 11:12am and landed at 12:46pm local time
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US To Deploy 16 F-35B Fighters At Japanese Airbase Next Year
August 23, 2016 @ 04:17 PMThe United States plans to deploy 16 F-35 fighters to the US military base in Japans Iwakuni in Yamaguchi. The plan is to deploy 10 aircraft in January and additional six in August next year
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US Likely To Replace T-38 Talons With Northrop’s New Jet Prototype
August 23, 2016 @ 10:09 AMThe US air force is likely to replace its aging T-38 Talons jet trainer with new Northrop Grummans T-X prototype. T-38, designed in the 1950s, is the first supersonic trainer aircraft in the world
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UK Awards $238 Million Contract To Buy ASRAAM Missiles To Equip F-35
August 16, 2016 @ 12:48 PMThe UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a £184 million contract to ensure the UKs new supersonic stealth combat aircraft will continue to be equipped with air-to-air missile. Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) is a heat-seeking weapon which will give Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy F-35B Lightning II pilots, operating from land and the UKs two new aircraft carriers, the ability to defeat current and future air adversaries, the MoD said in a statement Tuesday
Dutch F-35s Train for Rapid Deployment in Estonia
Turkish Baykar to Make Drones in Morocco
Sweden Announces $1.2B Military Support to Ukraine
French Armament Directorate Orders Renovation of 100 Leclerc Tanks
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