December 27, 2016 Military Aviation News
12/27/2016
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project is now in big trouble. And the vast army of Australia’s Joint Strike Fighter contractors are also in jeopardy because our government, led by Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne, has not woken up to what it means to have Donald Trump as US President.
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12/27/2016
What the former assistant secretary of the Navy said is descriptive of the entire military. Each service's culture, and interservice rivalries, and bureaucratic viscosity are resistant to reform. Which is why the next secretary of defense, retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, has the most difficult management challenge in American government.
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12/27/2016
President-elect Donald Trump is concerned about the cost of the fifth-generation F-35 combat aircraft to be built by Lockheed Martin Corporation for the U.S. military. The U.S. plans to buy more than 2,400 F-35 aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled until 2037 with an estimated service life up to 2070. The F-35 is the Pentagon is expected to cost around $400 billion over the next 22 years.
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12/27/2016
As India looks to replace its ageing Soviet-era lightweight combat aircraft fleet, two players have emerged as possible contenders, American defence major Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Falcon Block 70 and Swedish defence major Saab's Gripen E fighter aircraft.
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12/27/2016
China has tested an improvised version of its stealth fighter and plans to sell it at half the price of the US variant to break Western monopoly over the high-tech aircraft, which will have strategic implications for India as Pakistan has already shown interest in acquiring it.
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