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The First Finnish F-35 Has Taken Flight

That first flight came almost four years to the day that the Finnish government announced it had selected the F-35 as the winner of its HX Fighter Program.
The F-35’s performance was so impressive that Canada decided to buy the fifth-generation fighter despite a 2015 promise not ...
ZURICH: Switzerland said on Friday (Dec 12) it would reduce the number of Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighter jets it ...
The Finnish Air Force’s first F-35 conducted its first flight on Dec. 8, ahead of the official rollout ceremony next week. The Finnish Air Force has ...
But which of these jets costs more? The short answer is the F-22, while the longer answer is more complicated, and a ...
The negotiations are likely to cause alarm in Israel, given President Erdoğan’s open desire for the destruction of the Jewish state ...
JASSM-ER is a cruise missile developed for long-range, precision engagement in support of air-to-ground missions. The ...
Lockheed Martin, MBDA, and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed key ground-integration tests of the Meteor ...
The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced plans for a squadron at Chitose Air Base to transition from the F-15J to the F-35A. The Japanese Ministry of ...
Adding to the fiscal challenge is the Operations and Sustainment (O&S) phase, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) ...
In a separate but related development, the U.S. Department of Defense has granted Lockheed Martin a contract adjustment worth $1.14 billion. These funds are allocated specifically for "Advance ...
USS George Washington (CVN-73) returned to her home port of Yokosuka while USS Abraham Lincoln is now in Guam.