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NATO Is Now Using the F-35 To Make Old Fighters Even Deadlier
Italy, Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, the U.S., and the U.K. are all increasing joint 4th-Gen aircraft-F-35 interoperability exercises with one another, as the Pentagon looks to strengthen NATO ties and increase its Russia-oriented deterrence posture throughout the European continent.
Italy, Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, the U.S., and the U.K. are all increasing joint 4th-Gen aircraft-F-35 interoperability exercises with one another, as the Pentagon looks to strengthen NATO ties and increase its Russia-oriented deterrence posture throughout the European continent.
The numerous activities seek to not only leverage F-35 multinational networking and joint operational capacity but also extend beyond the 5th-Gen fighter to include 4th-Gen aircraft and many non-F-35 countries of great significance to the U.S. and NATO.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 23, 2021 at 4:19 PM
F-35 training simulator
WASHINGTON: “The principal challenge DoD faces is not a lack of innovation,” Christine Fox told Congress Tuesday. “The tougher task is how to adopt all this new innovation more rapidly into DoD programs….We have lots of prototypes but what we need is sustainable programs.”
Fox, the former head of the Pentagon’s powerful Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) unit, was testifying to the first-ever hearing of House Armed Services’ newest subcommittee, Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. The topic of the day was innovation – but Fox and her fellow acquisition experts on the panel made clear that having lots of neat ideas was far from enough.
Boeing s F-15EX: The Newest, Best F-15s Out There
One interesting question would be to see how an F-15EX performs in wargames or mock combat exercises against a Russian or Chinese-like 5th-Gen aircraft.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The F-15EX isn t a fifth-generation fighter. Nor is it trying to be one - it s an affordable fourth-generation fighter with reliable technology and a (comparatively) lower price tag.
Firing Hypersonic weapons, flying at supersonic speeds of Mach 2.5, jamming enemy fighter communications, flying semi-autonomously and performing 87 billion computer functions per second are all attributes reported to be achievable by the emerging U.S. Air Force F-15EX plane, built by Boeing.
The rapid growth of the China s expansionist Naval ambition continues.
Here s What You Need to Know: The carrier will be homeported in the South China Sea, a move which may resonate as somewhat provocative to the United States.
China’s first home-built carrier will soon fire weapons, launch fighter jets and coordinate with other surface warships in the South China Sea on a high-profile deployment, a moving signaling the rapid growth of the countries’ expansionist Naval ambition to project greater amounts of global power.
The Shandong, China’s first indigenous carrier, has deployed on its “third voyage” of the year, according to a Chinese government-backed Global Times newspaper, which is reporting that the carrier “could return to the South China Sea, where its homeport is located.”