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The NGAD Fighter Will Cost More Than 3 Times the F-35 Per Plane
What You Need to Know: The high cost of the NGAD program—$300 million per airframe, more than three times the F-35’s cost per ...
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Portugal Drops Plans for F-35 Citing U.S. Political Uncertainty
The recent shift in U.S. policy toward NATO has led the Portuguese Defense Minister to deem a potential F-35 procurement unlikely. In an interview with ...
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The F-35 Lightning Just Logged Its Millionth Flight Hour
The F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet fleet achieved a major milestone this month, after its aircraft exceeded one million total flight hours. The most advanced stealth fighter jet in the ...
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Trump Cancelling $1 Trillion F-35 Contract With Lockheed Martin? What We Know
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly told Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet that he plans to cancel the $1 trillion F-35 ... crazy to be spending $2 trillion (or more) over decades on a plane ...
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Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Program Finally Catches a Break
The Pentagon has reduced a financial penalty against Lockheed Martin over the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet. Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the cutting-edge aircraft, has been ...
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Defence analysts warn U.S. will control key systems on F-35 fighter jets, putting Canada at risk
“It was a completely crazy idea — you couldn ... announced it was purchasing the plane. But increasing costs and technical problems dogged the F-35 program. In a 2012 interview with CBC ...
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F-35 test pilot shares what it's like to jump from flying older F-16s to Lockheed Martin's newest 5th-gen stealth fighter
The much-newer F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is a supersonic stealth aircraft that took its first flight nearly 20 years ago. The platform has evolved tremendously over the years to meet ...
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F-35B Lightning II
STOVL aircraft are also stationed at the first operational F-35 base, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., and are completing flight test at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The Italian Air ...
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DoD Orders F-35 Tooling, Testing Equipment
of Defense to “add scope” to a previously awarded contract for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, to provide program management for special tooling and special test equipment. The un-definitized ...