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• Gov. Otter touts Idaho prospects for F-35 training and operations

  
  Talk Radio 950 KOZE-AM — Authority: 152
  Two Idaho military bases are under consideration to be homes for the new F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter.Mountain Home Air Force Base and Boise’s Gowen Field have made the U.S. Air Force’s short list for training and operations for the new aircraft.Idaho Gov. Butch Otter was in Boise this week, touting how ...
  9 hours ago

• Boeing Wins Contract To Support F/A-18 Fighters

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 147
  The Australian government invested in F/A-18 “Hornet” fighter and attack aircraft as an interim solution while waiting for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) to be delivered. The Boeing built aircraft have seen heavy use by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps over the last twenty years and represented a good ...
  21 hours ago

• Love of the Land: Wonderful: Obama Blocking Apache Sales To Israel, "Dismayed" At Use During Cast Lead

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 169
  Wonderful: Obama Blocking Apache Sales To Israel, "Dismayed" At Use During Cast Lead Omri Mere Rhetoric 05 February 10 So perfectly does this fit the "Obama is deepy anti-Israel" narrative that Im almost inclined to doubt its true. A story about how the WH is generically hamstringing weapons sales, fair ...
  2 days ago

• RAF Pilot is the First U.K. Pilot to Fly Joint Strike Fighter

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 158
  A Royal Air Force officer has become the first UK pilot to take to the skies in a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, known in the UK as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The aircraft is equipped with the most powerful and comprehensive sensor suite of any fighter in history. Squadron Leader Steve Long flew at 20,000 ...
  2 days ago

• First In-flight Refueling of F-35B Joint Strike Fighter

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 514
  EL SEGUNDO, Ca: Wyle air crew personnel have become the first aviators to aerially refuel the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing variant (STOVL) of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) using a probe-and-drogue refueling system during a recent mission at Lockheed Martins Ft. Worth, Tex. manufacturing facility. These first ...
  5 days ago

• STOVL Jet is Fifth Lockheed Martin F-35 to Enter Flight Testing

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 147
  STOVL Jet is Fifth Lockheed Martin F-35 to Enter Flight Testing February 2, 2010 6:46:00 PM FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb 02, 2010 -- A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter today became the fifth F-35 to begin flight operations. The jet, known as BF-3, ...
  5 days ago

• BAE shares drop as defence cuts loom

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 960
  Shares of Britains biggest defence companies, including BAE Systems and Qinetiq, were hit after the Government confirmed it will need to cut some key programmes to meet budget constraints and fund the military campaign in Afghanistan.
  6 days ago

• Gates announces joint strike fighter program shakeup

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 514
  WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced a restructuring in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter office Feb. 1, to provide increased oversight of a program he conceded has fallen behind in meeting key benchmarks. Secretary Gates also announced that he has withheld $614 million in performance fees from the ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: Lightning Strike – F-35 program project head replacement: Part II

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 147
  Looking at the history of leadership of the JSF PEO yields the insight that four USAF officers have led the project versus two US Navy and 2 USMC Generals. This would suggest the odds are pretty high that the USAF will be next in the cockpit for the largest defense acquisition program in the Pentagon. In addition ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: F-35 program project head replacement

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 147
  The latest news from Washington amid the announcement of a record budget deficit for the United States is the decision of Secretary of Defense Gates to remove the current head of the F-35 program, a US Marine Corps General and replace him with a three star (***) General of more senior rank (no comment as yet as to ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: Lightning Strike – F-35 program project head replacement

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 147
  The latest news from Washington amid the announcement of a record budget deficit for the United States is the decision of Secretary of Defense Gates to remove the current head of the F-35 program, a US Marine Corps General and replace him with a three star (***) General of more senior rank (no comment as yet as to ...
  1 week ago

• First UK Service Pilot Flies The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 514
  PATUXENT RIVER, Md.: A Royal Air Force officer on Tuesday became the first active-duty service pilot from the United Kingdom to take to the skies in a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). RAF Squadron Leader Steve Long piloted BF-2, the second short takeoff/vertical landing ...
  1 week ago

• Aircraft with advantages, or the next generation of wasted money?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Air Force is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on two fighter jets that probably will never be used to support troops on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. Congress has decided to cap production of the F-22, removing funding for the fifth-generation fighter from the 2010 military budget. And the F-35 — ...
  2 weeks ago

• NavAir Offers F-18 Ammo Amid JSF Woes

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  NavAir Offers F-​​18 Ammo Amid JSF Woes By Colin Clark Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 2:17 pm Posted in Air, International, Naval, Policy Congressional aides are beginning to wonder if the Navy should buy the carrier version of the Joint Strike Fighter, in light of the program’s rising price tag and its ...
  4 weeks ago

• First F-35’s STOVL propulsion system in-flight test video

  
  David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog — Authority: 414
  The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) currently deployed at NAS Patuxent River conducted the first of a series of planend STOVL propulsion system in flight tests that will include short takeoffs, hovers and vertical landings. Piloted by the F-35 Lead STOVL Pilot Graham Tomlinson of BAE Systems, ...
  4 weeks ago

• CAGW Strikes Blow against Defense Boondoggle

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 580
  CAGW launched a nationwide multimedia ad campaign last summer to alert taxpayers to $7.2 billion in wasteful spending on an alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).  In addition, CAGW’s Policy Experts released an Issue Brief exposing the alternate engine as an unnecessary, special-interest project ...
  4 weeks ago

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