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March 13, 2024
After a 5-year delay, the Pentagon approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production for the 5th gen fighter.
September 12, 2023
China's passenger vehicle sales rebound, and General Motors, Ford and Stellantis face a strike threat.
June 7, 2023
Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney have successfully performed the first start of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft test engine, using an integrated power package (IPP) that the functions traditionally performed by the auxiliary power system, emergency power system, and environmental control into a single system. The system was used to start a Pratt & Whitney F135 short-takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) engine at the company's advanced test facility in West Palm Beach, FL. The I...
March 28, 2023
The $382 billion F-35 Joint Strike fighter program may well be the largest single global defense program in history. This major multinational program is intended to produce an "affordably stealthy" multi-role fighter that will have 3