Month: February 2013
LTG Bogdan: LM, P&W trying to “squeeze every nickel” out of the U.S. government
Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program chief, publicly ripped Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney on Wednesday during a visit to Australia.
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Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera is confident the F-35’s problems will sort out
Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said in an interview that the F-35 program will overcome its development setbacks and the “end result will be a good product.”
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Canada’s first dedicated operational military satellite launched into space
Sapphire, Canada’s space-based electro-optical satellite for tracking man-made space objects in high Earth orbit, was carried into space by an Indian rocket on Feb. 25.
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USAF again selects Super Tucano for Afghan Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has again selected Sierra Nevada Corp. to provide 20 Super Tucano light support aircraft for the Afghan Air Force.
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