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America has worked to ensure its NATO allies have the advanced aircraft to their common defense. Another member of the mighty NATO alliance is armed with the worlds most powerful fighter jet. The Danish Defence Command has taken delivery of its first historic F-35 Lightning II joint strike jet fighter. Danish and U.S. officials gathered at Air Force Plant 4 in Fort Worth, Texas, earlier this week to celebrate the rollout of the Royal Danish Air Force’s (RDAF) first state-of-the-art F-35 fif...

An american missile program. turkey wanted to produce some of them and turkey. when the u.s. and turkey couldnt reach an agreement over that program, turkey turned to russia, purchasing the as/400. the president said earlier today that turkey is on track to purchase that program, they expect delivery by the next few weeks of that missile program, but the problem is that turkey is a nato country, and a russian missile defense system, according to defense officials within nato, say that is not com...

Well, you know, say this about donald trump but when he goes after one government contractor, like boeing lyric goes after others. so a fair and balanced -- what he considered to be overpriced items, including in the case of lockheed martin the f-35 fighter program. he says the cost are out of control. this little more than a week after saying of boeing, $4 billion for air force one? are you kidding? so here we go now and one week away from the electoral college on who becomes the next secretary...

The president insists that theyre ramping up against assad out of fear. >> if we continue to wring our hands and be absorbed by our own fear of that escalating conversation, and were still unwilling to instill fear in our adversaries, russian aggression is going to increase in the middle east. >> bret, the president was also asked why he went ahead with the syrian fighter program that he obviously doubted. he said part of his duty as commander in chief is to try different things. a very expensiv...

Its even classified in some areas. >> the j35 fighter program, one of the pentagons biggest ticket items, apparently the computer, storing some of the information about the planning for that fighter jet were broken into. thats pretty scary. >> cant really touch on too much of that. but youre right. and look at our uav technology. weve known, you know -- weve -- >> the jon: the unmanned aerial vehicle the, the predator and so forth. >> the predator, when these are i.p. addressable systems, both f...

European aerospace industry. you have a key partner. youre getting nearly 0% to 50% of the overall contract out of the saudi arabian investment. >> in the fighter program we own more than 45% of the program. therefore, we are very, very much interested in seeing how the saudi arabian contract is going. and we believe that this is another opportunity for us to have a relationship in the middle east. up next from london, strategist rabini outlines an economic master plan for the middle east.

The president insists that theyre ramping up against assad out of fear. >> if we continue to wring our hands and be absorbed by our own fear of that escalating conversation, and were still unwilling to instill fear in our adversaries, russian aggression is going to increase in the middle east. >> bret, the president was also asked why he went ahead with the syrian fighter program that he obviously doubted. he said part of his duty as commander in chief is to try different things. a very expensiv...