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The F-35 Lightning Can’t Handle Lightning
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may be named the “Lightning II” in homage to two of Lockheed Martin’s World War II-era aircraft, but it turns out at least one variant can’t actually handle the lightning

Russia Receives Fifth S-400 Air-Defense Regiment
MOSCOW --- Almaz-Antey defense manufacturer has delivered a new regiment set of the most advanced S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems to the troops ahead of schedule, the company reported on Mond

Russia Signs Export Contracts Worth Over 20 Bn Rubles
Rosoboronexport, part of the Rostec State Corporation, has signed 15 different contract documents with foreign customers of Russian military equipment and weapons at the Army 2018 International Milita

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The F-35 Lightning Can’t Handle Lightning
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may be named the “Lightning II” in homage to two of Lockheed Martin’s World War II-era aircraft, but it turns out at least one variant can’t actually handle the lightning...

Russia Receives Fifth S-400 Air-Defense Regiment
MOSCOW --- Almaz-Antey defense manufacturer has delivered a new regiment set of the most advanced S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems to the troops ahead of schedule, the company reported on Mond...

Russia Signs Export Contracts Worth Over 20 Bn Rubles
Rosoboronexport, part of the Rostec State Corporation, has signed 15 different contract documents with foreign customers of Russian military equipment and weapons at the Army 2018 International Milita...

France Calls on EU to Not Rely on US Defense
French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on the European Union to boost military cooperation and stop relying on the United States for defense while reaching out to Russia to develop a "strategic p...

More on Sea Trials of Chinese Aircraft Carrier
According to Global Times, China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier embarked on its second sea trial from its dock at the Dalian Shipyard in northeast China’s Liaoning Province on the morning...

Russia to Speed Up Delivery of S-400 to Turkey
The developments come as the US State Department made it clear that Washington would sanction any country that decides to purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems. The first S-400 surface-to-air ...

Qatar to Expand Air Base Hosting Major US Military Facility
DOHA --- Qatar will expand two air bases including Udeid, which hosts the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East, a senior military official said on Monday amid a year-long dispute between ...

Iran, Syria Sign Deal on Military Cooperation
The defense ministers of Iran and Syria have signed an agreement on military cooperation in the war-torn country, Iranian media report. The "defense and technical agreement" provides for the contin...

Pratt Wins Order for F-35 Lot 11 Special Tooling
United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is awarded $14,493,011 for modification P00006 to a previously awarded, fixed-price-incentive-firm target, cost...

Raytheon to Adapt Triton Targeting System to MQ-4C Unmanned Helo
Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is awarded $9,359,975 for cost-reimbursable job order 0010 under previously awarded contract N00164-17-G-JQ02 to procure engineering support for production and fleet int...

Airbus Perlan Glider Flies to Over 62,000 Feet, Sets New Altitude Record
EL CALAFATE, Argentina --- Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world’s first initiative to pilot an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, made history again yesterday in El Calafate, Argentina, by soari...

Senate Passes FY19 Defense Spending Bill
WASHIGNTON -- The U.S. Senate passed its version of the FY19 defense appropriations bill on Thursday, August 23, by a vote of 85-7. The defense spending bill was part of a minibus appropriations bill ...

US Stepping Up Armed Drone Efforts in Niger
The U.S. Air Force is months away from completing the construction of an air base in Niger for armed drones that will target militant groups operating in the region, a U.S military official told VOA. ...

Burden-Sharing Within NATO: Facts from Germany
Professor Rachel Epstein’s interview with Professor Donald Abenheim of the Naval Postgraduate School and Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Marc-André Walther of the German Armed Forces Command and St...

Ten Ways a Space Force Will Make America Weaker
President Trump says that when he first brought up the possibility of creating a Space Force separate from the other military services, "I was not really serious." It was a joke. It's still a joke,...

Chinese Arms Firms Make Russian Show Debut
For the first time, Chinese arms companies participated in the annual International Military-Technical Forum Army-2018 in Russia in late August, with Chinese experts saying that Chinese weaponry and e...

'Drone Natives' May One Day Help or Harm US Forces
WASHINGTON --- The term "digital natives" was coined for children born after 2000, because those young people have grown up in a world already inundated with computers, cell phones and tablets, said L...

US Army Says Futures Command Marks a Culture Shift
AUSTIN, Texas --- In empty office space on the 19th floor of a University of Texas System building here, Friday, the Army unveiled the location for the headquarters of its new Futures Command, which h...

USAF Supports Premier Royal Air Force Exercise
RAF LAKENHEATH, England --- The U.S. Air Force’s 492nd Fighter Squadron sent several F-15E Strike Eagles to support the Royal Air Force’s premier air combat training exercise, Typhoon Warrior, Aug. 14...

USS Abraham Lincoln Successfully Completes Trials After Refit
ATLANTIC OCEAN --- The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) together with Carrier Strike Group 12, Destroyer Squadron 2, and Carrier Air Wing 7, completed Tailored Ship’s Trainin...

Pentagon Touts Implementation of National Defense Strategy
WASHINGTON --- Last week’s ceremonies re-establishing the Navy’s 2nd Fleet in Norfolk, Virginia, and standing up the Army’s Futures Command in Austin, Texas, illustrate aspects of the National Defense...

ST Engineering Shuts Down Australian Subsidiaries
SINGAPORE --- Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today announced that ST Engineering Aerospace Ltd. has placed its subsidiaries, ST PAE Holdings Pty Ltd (ST PAE) and Aerospace Eng...

Troubled Denel Needs Outside Help to Exhibit At Local Show
Within the current operating context of austerity and prudent financial management, Denel’s participation at the upcoming Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition, has been enabled through local ...

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