A bipartisan group of lawmakers are calling on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to approve funding for 98 F-35 aircraft in the fiscal year 2021 defense policy bill to support readiness and
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The Australian government will prepare decommissioned F/A-18 Classic Hornet aircraft over a maximum of four years for U.S. Air Force training services. Australia's defense department said Sunday it will reservice 46 retired F/A-18 units that Air USA,
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The U.S. Air Force put a one-fifteenth scale F-35A Lightning II model in a transonic wind tunnel to test the aircraft's store separation. The test took place ahead of schedule at Arnold Air Force Base's Engineering Development
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U.S. Air Force Maj. General Eric Fick, deputy director of the Joint Strike Fighter program at the Department of Defense, was nominated to the post of director and rank of lieutenant general.
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The U.S. Air Force and Norway have completed several weapons development tests for the fifth-generation Joint Strike Fighter‘s anti-surface warfare missile system. Norway will proceed with the integration and evaluation of the Joint
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The U.S. Marine Corps will redesignate a Yuma, Arizona-based squadron as marine fighter attack squadron 211 on June 30 as the unit transitions from AV-8B Harrier aircraft to Lockheed Martin-built F-35B fighter jets,
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A U.S. Air Force official has said the service branch has started to subject its F-35 fighter jets to combat mission tests against Russian- and Chinese-made aerial defense platforms through the use
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Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, chief of the F-35 joint program office, has said the Air Force, Marine Corps and the Navy have decided to extend the service life of the Joint Strike
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U.S. Strategic Command plans to adopt a new government policy to provide U.S.’ partner nations access to a communications technology payload on Mobile User Objective System satellites, Space News reported Wednesday. Space News quoted
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The Defense Department has announced various maintenance and upgrade locations for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 joint strike fighter in Europe, DoD said Thursday. Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, executive officer for
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