For thousands of workers in Georgia, Texas and California, the question of what aircraft Japan chooses to replace its aging fighter jet fleet could mean their jobs.
Because the U.S. Air Force is scaling back its orders of the stealthy F-22, selling the costly fighter to an ally could be the only way to keep the multibillion dollar producton from ending. Japan which has expressed interest and is one of the few countries with deep enough pockets could be the only realistic buyer on the horizonCongress repeatedly has banned the sale or license of the F-22 "Raptor" to any foreign government. The latest attempt to repeal that ban was shot down in the Senate earlier this year.
The Government of France has selected Lockheed Martin’s HELLFIRE II missile system to equip its Hélicoptère d'Appui Destruction (HAD) Tiger attack helicopter fleet. The precision-strike missiles will be purchased under a foreign military sale for the French Army, which is fielding 40 HAD Tiger helicopters. The fielding is expected to be completed by 2012.
Ten years after the U.S. Air Force retired the SR-71 spy plane, Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works appears back at work developing a new Mach-6 reconnaissance plane, sources said. The Air Force has awarded Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects arm a top-secret contract to develop a stealthy 4,000-mph plane capable of flying to altitudes of about 100,000 feet, with transcontinental range. The plan is to debut the craft around 2020.
Walt Havenstein, the chief executive of BAE's 36,000-strong US business, was in a bullish mood Monday about the prospects for the $4.1bn (£2bn) takeover of Armor Holdings.
The fall-out from the UK's abandoning of a fraud probe into Saudi Arabian arms deals had led to questions about BAE Systems' future growth in the US.
A US Navy jet crashed during an air show, plunging into a neighbourhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot, the county coroner said.
Witnesses said the planes were flying in formation during the show on Saturday at the Marine Corps Air Station and one dropped below the trees and crashed, sending up clouds of smoke. At least one home was on fire.
The year's first Red Flag-Alaska ended April 20 after two weeks of intense, air-combat training over Alaska's mountain ranges.
Training in a multi-service, multi-platform, combat operations exercise involving coalition forces was an opportunity that cannot be under emphasized, said Lt. Col. Eddie Osteen, the 353rd Combat Training Squadron commander and the host squadron commander.
BAE Systems has received a $26.5 million contract to convert 20 F-4 Phantom fighter jets to full-scale aerial targets for the U.S. Air Force.
The converted aircraft, designated QF-4s, provide the Air Force with full-size, remotely controlled aircraft that allow aircrews to train in highly realistic air combat maneuvering, including live weapons launch.
By: starbulletin The Air Force says it will change the approach flight pattern to Hickam Air Force Base to reduce any potential noise problems from the 20 F-22A Raptor combat jets that the Hawaii Air National Guard plans to fly four years from now.
In the 243-page draft Environmental Assessment released yesterday, the Air Force acknowledged that "F-22A engines
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