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India pauses FGFA program

Posted on April 21, 2018 by alert5

India has decided to stop all work on the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program with Russia, Ajai Shukla reports.

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PAF to base FA-50PH at Basa airbase

Posted on April 21, 2018April 20, 2018 by alert5

Philippines will bed down all 12 of its FA-50PH at Basa Air Base by end of this year.

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Lockheed Martin awarded $928 million for hypersonic conventional strike weapon

Posted on April 20, 2018 by alert5

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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