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House turns down amendments against F-35B, V-22 - Navy Times

"Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., offered an amendment to terminate the F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft program. The amendment would have directed the available funds to be used for deficit reduction and to procure additional F A-18E F ...

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Posted: 2 days ago

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Britain forced into fighter jet U-turn

LONDON (Reuters) Britain said it was to buy vertical take-off fighter jets for its future aircraft carriers , a policy shift on a key weapons purchase that risks being seen as another government gaffe and further evidence of defence mismanagement. Britain ...

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Posted: 8 days ago

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Lockheed awarded $237.8 million contract to cover increased F-35 costs

The Pentagon on Monday awarded Lockheed Martin a $237.8 million contract for modifications to the 32 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft ordered back in September 2010. The original order estimated the cost for the 30 U.S. aircraft at about $5 billion, or $ ...

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Posted: 12 days ago

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DUE DILIGENCE

Bill Sweetman , a long time critic of the F-35, has written in Defence Technology International that; If you make the right decision based on inadequate information, you are lucky rather then intelligent. Although many planning decisions (including big one ...

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Posted: 2 weeks ago

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RAAF General Dynamics F-111 the flying “Pig”

ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE The General Dynamics F-111 never had an official name other than F-111 but wasknown asthe Aardvark in US service (all aircraft were retired by 1998 including the EF-111 Raven an electronic warfare version), it was called Pig in A ...

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Posted: 3 weeks ago

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Lockheed gets $114M to fix its mistake jets

New from Eric Palmer's blog New DOD contracts for mistake-jet fixes on F-35 Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $68,284,013 modification to the previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee F-35 Lightn ...

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Posted: 4 weeks ago

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Navy Looks for New Jet, on Top of Its Trillion-Dollar Model

Sailors prepare to launch an F A-18 Super Hornet from the deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz , 2010. Photo U.S. Navy On Friday, the Navy quietly released a market survey asking the big defense contractors for their candidate[s] for strike fighter aircraft in the de ...

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Posted: 1 month ago

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2.2. Static and dynamic aviation

Aerostatics The principle of static aviation or aerostatics is based on Archimedes law The upward force on a body immersed in a medium is equal to the weight of the displaced medium. In static aviation, this medium is the atmosphere and vehicles can be use ...

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Posted: 2 months ago

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Why Does Britain Need Aircraft Carriers?

The Heart of British Defence Strategy Executive Summary. i. For those who are not part of the Naval Service or of the Merchant Marine, the strategic value of the Naval Service for the defence of our trade routes, our energy supplies and our overseas intere ...

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Posted: 2 months ago

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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

"F-35" redirects here. For other uses, seeF35 (disambiguation). F-35 Lightning II An F-35C Lightning II, marked CF-1, conducts a test flight over theChesapeake Bay Role Stealthmultirole fighter National origin United States Manufacturer Lockheed Martin Aer ...

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Posted: 2 months ago