The third Australian F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has received its Australian made vertical tail as it nears production completion. Victorian based company Marand is an Australian company, one of which is the manufacture of vertical tails
The Eurofighter Typhoon will form the 'spear point' of the UKs future combat air defence capability alongside the F-35 Lightning, Harriett Baldwin, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement has said. “We see Typhoon as very much strengthening UK defence and the first quality I would highlight is its reliability; it has an engine that goes over 1,000 flying hours without needing unscheduled maintenance,” Harriett Baldwin MP, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement, was quoted as saying by BAE Systems Thursday
The US State Department has approved $108.7 million sale to the Government of Australia for ALE-70 Radio Frequency Countermeasures (RFCM)
The Royal Air Force of Oman has taken delivery of its first Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft. The two Mark 166 aircraft arrived at Masirah Air Base on July 29th and will now prepare pilots for life in the cockpit of its fast jet fleet, which now includes the Eurofighter Typhoon
Lockheed Martin is being awarded a $3.6 billion low-rate initial production Lot 11 F-35 Lightning II advance acquisition contract to manufacture 50 aircraft for international partners and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers
France and Germany could develop a future European fighter jet to replace the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Dassault Rafale. The fighter program could expand from the current Anglo-French combat drone program
F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft fleet recently exceeded 100,000 flight hours while the F-35 Integrated Test Force teams are completing the remaining requirements in the program's System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase. The remaining development flight testing includes validating the final release of 3F software, F-35B ski jump testing, F-35B austere site operations, high-Mach Loads testing for both the F-35B and F-35C and completion of the remaining weapons delivery accuracy tests, A Lockheed Martin release said
The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force has started second phase of land-based F-35B ski-ramp testing at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River in Maryland. The US-constructed ski ramps would help the UK Royal Navy in Phase 2 Testing of the F-35B Lighting II
The UK's F-35 fighter jets cannot transmit data to the Royal Navy's ships and older aircraft without revealing its position, putting a question mark over its 'stealth' capabilities, an investigation by the Times newspaper has found. In addition, the plane's software system is vulnerable to cyber attack and cannot be tested independently by the UK
Frand and Germany plan to come up with a roadmap for joint development of a new European fighter jet and replacement of the existing fleet by mid-2018. "Today there are too many European standards and qualifications and sometimes there is competition among Europeans internationally," French President Emmanuel Macron was quoted as saying by Reuters during a news conference along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday