Marine Test Pilots Prefer F-35 Over F-18
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Patuxent River NAS: With all the cost overruns, schedule delays and political wrangling over the F-35 program, Boeing has been trying to pitch the F-18 Super Hornet to countries that be growing weary of all this turmoil. For more news and information on the swiftly-changing defense industry, please sign up for the Breaking Defense newsletter.… Keep reading →
Knighthawks Head to First Foreign Customer, Thailand
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Washington: For the first time, the Navy’s MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter is heading to a foreign military. The two helos delivered to the Thai navy today will give those forces the same combat search and rescue to troop transport capabilities as their U.S. Navy counterparts, said Michael Sears, the Navy’s international deputy program manager for the… Keep reading →
EXCLUSIVE: Senators Question Carter On F-35’s Trillion Dollar Cost
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Washington: A bipartisan band of six senators — five of them members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — are questioning the Pentagon’s politically explosive $1 trillion cost estimate in an Aug. 1 letter to Ash Carter, the presumptive deputy secretary of defense. The was made on the last page of the Pentagon latest Selected… Keep reading →
F-35B Decision Data Ready Next Summer; First Look at Plane in Flight
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Washington: Sometimes events are, in and of themselves, news. So it was today when the Joint Strike Fighter program working with the Marines, flew the F-35B for the first time in front of a carefully selected portion of the defense press corps. For more news and information on the swiftly-changing defense industry, please sign up… Keep reading →
Record-setting X3 Helicopter Shows Off at Paris Air Show
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Paris: It’s a helicopter, but it’s not ungainly. It’s a helicopter, but it has two forward-facing propellers. It’s a helicopter but it flies as fast as some planes. It is the X3, a very high-speed helicopter built by European defense giant EADS. It’s already set one speed record, zooming at 279.6 miles per hour (232… Keep reading →
F-35 ‘Costs Have to Continue Coming Down:’ JSF Deputy
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Paris: In another clear signal that the heat is on Lockheed Martin to substantially bring down the costs of the biggest acquisition program in US history, the Nr. 2 man in the program told reporters here that costs have to keep going down. “Much of that will play out” in the nascent negotiations on the… Keep reading →
Highlights of the Paris Air Show, Part 1
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The first day of the Paris Air Show is when the shakedown occurs. Everyone figures out what’s where. Much of the biggest news is broken. And everyone — no matter how many years they’ve been to the show — looks up startled when the raw boom and roar of the high-performance military jets zoom overhead… Keep reading →
U.S. Navy Version of Lockheed Martin F-35 Makes First Flight
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U.S. Navy Version of Lockheed Martin F-35 Makes First Flight “I am thrilled the F-35C has attained this milestone,” said Vice Adm. Thomas J. Kilcline, Commander of Naval Air Forces. “This flight marks the beginning of a new chapter in Naval Aviation. The mission systems in this aircraft will provide the Carrier Strike Group Commander… Keep reading →
Lockheed Martin – Gyrocam Vehicular/Portable Surveillance Systems
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The VOSS, developed by the Lockheed Martin Gyrocam company, is a mast-mounted sensor system, that can be mounted on vehicles or expeditionary installation, offering remote controlled surveillance. Read The Full Article at: http://defense-update.com/wp/20110610_voss.html