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Italian defense firm Leonardo is working on transforming its cylindrical BriteCloud missile decoy into a square format so that it can fit on the American ALE-47 chaff and flare dispenser.
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An anonymous source told Reuters that Lockheed Martin plans to offer a new fighter jet that “would combine the F-22 and F-35” to Japan for the latter’s new fighter competition.
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India has decided to stop all work on the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program with Russia, Ajai Shukla reports.
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Philippines will bed down all 12 of its FA-50PH at Basa Air Base by end of this year.
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The U.S. Air Force on Apr. 18 awarded a $928 million contract to Lockheed Martin for “the design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning, and aircraft integration support of” a hypersonic, conventional, air-launched, stand-off weapon.
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