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Safran’s CEO, Philippe Petitcolin, said he is keen to boost the thrust of the M88 turbofan engine to 20,000 lbs but he added that the idea has not been discussed with Dassault.
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Lockheed Martin’s CEO was quoted as saying at the company’s media day that the aerospace giant is “now producing a controllable, low-drag, aerodynamic configuration capable of stable operations from takeoff to subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic, to Mach 6.”
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Reuters reports that Germany could be buying the C-130 from Lockheed Martin as the A400M is considered too big and wide to operate out of certain runways.
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The executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs (ADP) a.k.a Skunk Works said the U.S. Navy should pick a flying wing design from the start for the MQ-25 program.
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Three Tu-160 airframes that are currently in storage since Soviet-era at Kazan will be rebuilt as the first three Tu-160M2s.
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