When asked whether his service is interested in Lockheed Martin’s SR-72, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh would not comment on it and added that he had not spoken to Lockheed officials about the hypersonic plane.
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Category: Industry
BAE Systems, Dassault Aviation submit joint UCAV plan
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have submitted proposals to the British and French governments to develop an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator together.
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Photo: LRASM 2nd test flight
The Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) recently flew the second test flight and successfully hit a moving maritime target.
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Pentagon will no longer buy helicopters from Rosoboronexport
The Pentagon no longer will buy Russian helicopters, meant for Afghanistan, from Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport.
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Early batch of T-129s failing acceptance tests
It has been revealed that the first six T-129 attack helicopters for Turkey have been repeatedly failing acceptance tests since 2012.
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