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How is the airforce preparing for Arctic warfare? Meet the Elephant Walk. Heres What You Need to Remember: The Alaskan Air Force base exercise included a lot of powerful aircraft and their supporting tankers. Just in case Santa Clause and his Elves wind up needing military protection from an attempted hostile intrusion in the North Pole, the U.S. Air Force will be ready with F-35 and F-16 fighter jets poised for rapid attack.  The service’s 354th Fighter Wing at Eielson Air Force Base, Alas...

NATO Is Now Using the F-35 To Make Old Fighters Even Deadlier Italy, Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, the U.S., and the U.K. are all increasing joint 4th-Gen aircraft-F-35 interoperability exercises with one another, as the Pentagon looks to strengthen NATO ties and increase its Russia-oriented deterrence posture throughout the European continent.  Italy, Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, the U.S., and the U.K. are all increasing joint 4th-Gen aircraft-F-35 interoperability exercises with one ...

Israel Confirms Plans to Buy Boeing Tankers, F-35 Jets

Australia’s F-35A stealth aircraft are being maintained at home with more than 30 ready for operations, the Prime Minister says.

Australian Air Force’s Fifth Generation F-35’s Ready to Fly Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the fleet of aircraft was now 33 strong. “This is about protecting and securing Australia’s interests but it’s also creating jobs and driving investment right here in the Hunter and across the country too,” Morrison said on Monday. The depot was selected to be the maintenance, repair, overhaul, and upgrade depot for the Southeast Asian region and will host aircraft from other nations in t...

Danish defence procurement agency DALO issues RfI for framework tender. The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) has issued an RfI to industry for cartridges to arm cannons on its future fleet of F-35A Lightning II multi-role fighter aircraft. DALO announced on 20 January that it intends to put out a framework agreement tender for an ammunition provider to supply 25x137mm rounds for the F-35A. It added that it is ‘looking for information on how to structure such [a] te...

The military and defense contractors have struggled to get the plane in full working order, although improvements have been made over the years.

And vocational job training. across new york state, were building the new new york. to grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd.ny.gov. not long before president trump visits asia next month james mattis is on the ground in the region. he just got to seoul in south korea on a mission to try to defuse some of the tensions with north korea. >> there is no decescent about e danger that north korea presents and a lot of discussion on how to move forward by everyone. how do we resolv...

Who are making the decisions now, to make the military establishment much smaller in terms of people -- >> shrinking the army to pre-world war ii levels. >> theyll be distressed to think they are the intellectual step children of donald rumsfeld, who thought you could replace people with machines and win all the wars we need to win, and thats just not true. >> what about those who point to the inflated budget, that some of the lists of things the military says they need at one point in time, we ...