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...The new system, to be provided by Lockheed Martin, would better enable Taiwan to defend its airspace, provide regional security and increase its ability to operate with US forces through its F-16 programme...
...The industry has been dominated for decades by an oligopoly of century-old contractors, known as “primes”, such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon....
...Although fictional, the plane evokes Lockheed Martin’s SR-71, which in the 1960s set a speed record for a piloted jet aircraft of Mach 3.2, or 2,455mph....
...With another $1bn going to Lockheed Martin to build the Orion spacecraft that sits on top of the SLS, the agency puts the total cost for each Artemis mission at $4.1bn....
...It is a similar idea to vertical take-off military jets such as the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and the Lockheed Martin F-35 strike fighter, but there are no widely used civil-aviation equivalents....
...It has also leapt ahead of contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, whose joint venture, United Launch Alliance, had carried the flag for US space launch — though using Russian engines....
...Is Lockheed Martin a ‘bad’ company because it makes weapons that kill, or a ‘good’ company because it makes missile defence systems?...
...“It’s just amazing what they were able to do with slide rules,” says Chambers of Lockheed Martin....
...In the US, the rocket launch sector has been led by Boeing and Lockheed Martin for decades....
...ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — has been forced to develop a new system because its current main rocket, the Atlas V, depends on the Russian-built RD-180 engine....
...Last year aerospace company Lockheed Martin agreed a $62m settlement — the largest so far....
...Sikorsky of the US, bought by defence company Lockheed Martin at the end of 2015, also funded its own high-speed demonstrator, the X2....
...This month the sale of Sikorsky by United Technologies Corporation to the Lockheed Martin aerospace company was confirmed — and Lockheed’s mainly defence focus is unlikely to mean there will be a push for...
...ULA also markets itself on its record of never having suffered a mission failure in 106 flights since it was set up as a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin in 2006....
...Boeing is 50 per cent owner with Lockheed Martin of United Launch Alliance....
...ULA has to grapple with the confused state of efforts to replace the Russian-made RD180, which first Lockheed Martin and then ULA have been buying ever since the end of the cold war....
...The assumption when the law was passed was that it permitted ULA, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to use 29 RD180s after its current five-year contract with the US government expires in 2018...
...ULA, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, intends to keep operating its Atlas V rocket, capable of lifting all but the heaviest payloads, while SpaceX expects to receive certification by June that...
...ULA is a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. “Developing an American engine by 2019, cert[ification] in 2022-23, is an aggressive schedule,” Mr Bruno wrote....
...In my last column, I described the larger successor to the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey that is being developed by Bell Helicopter along with Lockheed Martin and a clutch of other specialist companies....
...Congress last year ruled that ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — was allowed to buy no more RD180s after its current launch contract expired in 2019....
...The head of Lockheed Martin’s space systems division has called for the US government to hold new competitors to the same exacting standards as existing military rocket launchers, in an apparent sideswipe...
...ULA, a joint venture between Boeing, the military and commercial aerospace company, and Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest military contractor, said: “The White House and Department of Defense should have...
...The engines power the rockets used by the United Launch Alliance, the joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing that handles the US’s most sensitive military satellite launches....
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