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Canada’s Liberal government has calculated that if it was to withdraw from the F-35 program today, its financial liability would be $313 million.
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Rockwell Collins has successfully tested its Wideband HF Receiver-Exciter on a C-17 and the cargo plane was able to exchange broadband data between Dover AFB Delaware and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has selected Northrop Grumman for its Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) Turret Research in Aero-Effects (STRAFE) program.
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RADA says an Asian military force is expected to place an order for the company’s Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR) based RPS-42 aerial surveillance radar systems in the third quarter of this year.
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The U.S. Army wants a new advanced 3,000 shaft horsepower turbine engine to its fleet of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters. For that, it selected the Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney, to accomplish the task.
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