Between September and November, Task Force Talon – the Guam-based Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery – replaced its entire stock of interceptors in order to maintain operational readiness.
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Britain to buy 138 F-35Bs
Britain has committed itself to buying 138 F-35Bs and 24 of these will be operating from the two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers by 2023.
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China claims KJ-500’s radar system is 100% indigenous
China claimed a breakthrough in its airborne early warning technology by having indigenous hardware and software components of the KJ-500’s radar.
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Work expects F-35 to participate in Canada’s upcoming fighter competition
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said he expects the F-35 fighter to compete in the fighter competition to be launched by Canada’s new Liberal government.
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Figuring out the specs of Cold War Soviet airplanes
Bill Sweetman described how he would use graph paper and a Sinclair Cambridge calculator to try figure out the specifications of Soviet warplanes during the Cold War.
By Richard J. Terry [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons