Lockheed Martin has completed Canada’s order of 17 CC-130J Super Hercules with the last delivered on May 8.
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Venlet: Good old fashioned engineering is going to take care of “F-35’s problems”
Vice Adm. David Venlet told three members of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s air-land panel that current problems with the F-35 is not something engineering cannot fix.
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KC-46 completes Preliminary Design Review
The KC-46 Tanker program has completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the U.S. Air Force and is cleared for detail design.
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DDG 116 named after Korea War Medal of Honor recipient
The U.S. Navy will name its newest destroyer as USS Thomas Hudner. Thomas J. Hudner Jr. was a naval aviator who crashed his plane during the Korean War to help his wingman who was shot down.
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Some in Taiwan’s military wish to abandon F-16s and wait for F-35B
According to media reports from Taiwan, some military leaders are suggesting that the island abandons its efforts to buy new F-16s save the funds for the F-35B.
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