The U.S. State Department has reached a $13 million settlement with Honeywell over allegations it exported technical drawings of parts for the F-35 fighter jet and other weapons platforms to China, among other foreign countries.
Supersized but simple.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The F-18 can take on many roles and replaced the venerable F-14 Tomcat.
Developed as the U.S. military’s first all-weather fighter and attack aircraft, the F/A-18 Hornet could take on traditional strike applications including interdiction and close air without compromising its fighter capabilities. Over the years, the platform has been steadily improved and in 1999 the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet entered service with the U.S. Navy as replacement for the F-14 Tomcat.
This second model upgrade proved highly capable across the full mission spectrum and could fill the role of air superiority, fighter escort, reconnaissance, aerial refueling, close air support, air defense suppression and day/night precision strike aircraft. The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, which is now manufactured by Boeing following its merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997, has been produced in two distinct versions including the single-seat F/A-18/E and the dual
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Paul McLeary on March 05, 2021 at 12:25 PM
A B-1B Lancer lands at Ørland Air Force Station, Norway, March 3, 2021
WASHINGTON: A top Norwegian general insists that basing two US B-1B bombers in Norway isn’t meant as a threat to Russia. Instead, he argued, the new basing agreement at the country’s main F-35 base is simply a new opportunity to train in the Arctic.
“We are not going into a new Cold War,” Lt. Gen. Yngve Odlo, Chief of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters told reporters this morning, adding that Oslo has long operated in the High North close to the Russian border, and both sides have well-understood rules of the road for staying clear of one another.
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Theresa Hitchens on March 01, 2021 at 1:37 PM
Raytheon’s T-6 trainer is used by the Air Force and Navy for basic pilot training.
WASHINGTON: CAE’s acquisition of L3Harris’s Military Training unit continues the Canadian firm’s efforts to expand and broaden its US defense portfolio, especially with the Air Force, say company officials and industry analysts.
“CAE will be a very good parent, hungry to grow its USAF training portfolio, plus become a larger DoD contractor,” one US market analyst said in an email.
“The proposed acquisition represents a significant value creation opportunity for all CAE stakeholders. It accelerates our growth strategy in Defence and Security and is highly complementary to our core military training business, broadening our position in the United States,” said Marc Parent, CAE’s president and CEO in a statement this morning announcing the buy.
However, the Lightning costs a lot more and is rife with issues.
Here s What You Need To Remember: When facing threatening adversaries, the two aircraft types could potentially synergize well, with the Lightning, confined to lighter internal weapons loads when flying in a stealthy configuration, ferreting out targets for the Super Hornets to slug away at from a relatively safe distance.
In June, the U.S. Navy released a budget allocating $264.9 million towards upgrading its roughly six hundred FA-18E and F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler fighters to the new Block III standard, which includes some of the enhancements proposed for the Advanced Super Hornet. This is intended to coincide with a service-life extension program (SLEP) meant to increase the type’s flight hours from six thousand to nine thousand. The first of the upgraded aircraft are expected to enter service in 2019, and the Pentagon is now talking about keeping its Super Hornet fleet active through 2046.