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After a 5-year delay, the Pentagon approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production for the 5th gen fighter. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Dr. William A. LaPlante...

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The 1000th F-35 Lighting II jet will be delivered once it receives the necessary TR-3 hardware and final TR-3 software. Lockheed Martin confirmed it has built the 1000th F-35, an important milest...

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“The F-35 was designed to operate in highly contested airspace, with capabilities precisely focused on what we have been seeing in Ukraine today.” We have had an expansive chat with Billie Fl...

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The RDAF (Royal Danish Air Force) F-16 Fighting Falcons are being painted in dark grey. In October 2020, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Flyvevåbnet (Royal Danish Air Force), the F-16AM...

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Here is what The Aviationist  Suggests You to Read During the Quarantine, Isolation or Stay at Home period. During our Instagram Live Story show on Tuesday, March 24, David Cenciotti and Tom Dem...

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Let’s talk about Italy officially joining Tempest Programme. On Sept. 10, Italy has officially become the latest member of the Tempest Programme, the project to develop a next generation multir...

https://theaviationist.com/2019/09/10/italy-joins-tempest-becoming-third-nation-to-partner-on-the-program-to-develop-a-6th-generation-fighter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=italy-joins-tempest-becoming-third-nation-to-partner-on-the-program-to-develop-a-6th-generation-fighter

Red Flag 19-1 has just come to an end and, based on official reports, once again the F-35 held its own against the Aggressors. You may probably remember what happened in 2017, when the first ...

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What makes this shot really amazing is the distortion caused by the modified index of refraction around the aircraft as a consequence of the shock waves. “Star Wars Canyon” (aka Rainbow Canyo...

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Cheap, Easy, Available: Asia’s JF-17 Thunder Contrasts U.S. and Russian Tactical Aircraft. Develop it faster, build it cheaper and make it more available. From electronics to automobiles, the A...

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New Ninth Example of Russian 5th Generation Sukhoi Su–57 (PAK FA) With Its Enormous Fuel Tanks Spotted at Zhukovsky. Vladimir Zinenko, admin for the Facebook group page “ВВС России�...

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Check Out This Cool New Video of F-35B Doing Ski Jump Launch Trials for the QE2. British Aerospace test pilot Peter “Wizzer” Wilson demonstrated the F-35B Lightning II’s capability to launc...

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F-35A Mini-Heritage Flight and First Lightning II at Selfridge ANGB for 100th Anniversary. The USAF F-35A Lightning II made history again this past weekend when it visited Selfridge Air National ...

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Check Out These Cool Photos of the F-35C That Would Make Maverick and Goose and Jealous. How many chances will the U.S. Navy’s F-35C have to launch a close-range, advanced air-to-air dogfightin...

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New Technologies, IoT And Cyber Threats Are Changing The Way War Is Fought In The Battlefield Wearables used to monitor activity level and individuals health state. Collaboration softwares used t...

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Red Flag 17-3 underway at Nellis Air Force Base features both U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force F-35s, for the first time together. Red Flag is simply one of the largest and more realistic ...

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