Hints and tips:
...There are other big-ticket items, such as further orders for the F-35 stealth fighter jets, which cost about £90mn each and are needed for the UK’s two new aircraft carriers....
...Talks are continuing with Japan over whether to integrate its F-X fighter jet programme with Tempest....
...“We’re a partner on Lockheed Martin’s global F-35 programme, which includes Israel,” the company added....
...It merges Japan’s F-X programme with the UK and Italy’s Tempest project, with the aim of delivering a supersonic jet in roughly half the time — and at much lower cost — compared with aircraft of previous...
...“Countries like the Philippines and Vietnam may not be able to buy a [US-made] F-35 fighter jet, because the US wouldn’t allow it,” the western defence official added....
...While the cost of each aircraft depends on a range of factors including the model, some estimates cited for the F-35 jet are more than $170mn....
...“We are standing by, ready to not only backfill need as it arises with new F-16 builds but also any modifications to F-16s as well as training, equipment and systems,” said Frank St John, chief operating...
...Two of the most high-profile procurement decisions last year were made in Berlin, with the German government committing to 35 US-made F-35 fighter jets, as well as 60 CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters...
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...Citing the experience of building the F-2 fighter jet, which was based on the US F-16 fighter jet, with US partners, Abe stressed that the company had a solid record....
...In late 2020, Japan’s defence ministry chose Lockheed Martin, the US maker of the F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters, as a partner for MHI, which is heading the F-X programme....
...Under the accord agreed on Friday, the UK and Italy will merge their existing Future Combat Air programme, dubbed Tempest, with Japan’s own F-X project....
...The Typhoon is one of the UK’s two main combat aircraft, alongside the US-designed F-35 stealth fighter, and has accounted for 80 per cent of the country’s defence industry exports over the past decade....
...Northrop Grumman generates more than 80 per cent of its annual revenues from contracts with the US government, including key roles on programmes such as the F-35 fighter jet where it provides parts for the...
...The UK and Japan are considering a “wider partnership” that could integrate Tokyo’s own F-X fighter jet programme with Tempest, although a decision is not expected until the end of the year, according to...
...This in particular means there is no alternative but to choose the F-35,” he said, adding that it was the “most modern fighter in the world”....
...Germany’s first big purchase after announcing it would launch a €100bn military modernisation fund was the American-made F-35 fighter jet, capable of carrying nuclear weapons....
...“The French will not like it at all,” one top European defence executive said of the F-35 order....
...The group’s products run from the F-35 fighter jet to nuclear submarines. BAE and Rolls-Royce won defence contracts worth more than £2bn in May from the UK....
...The company’s 85,000 employees build everything from F-35 fighter jets to nuclear submarines and combat vehicles....
...More open to question is the review’s emphasis on the navy, including the almost £8bn spent on two new aircraft carriers — plus the F-35 stealth aircraft that operate off their decks, costing £90mn each...
...Hemingway was soon moving in a remarkable literary world that included Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Morley Callaghan, Gertrude Stein and F Scott Fitzgerald, all orbiting round Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare...
...It also comes two months after the Swiss government chose Lockheed Martin’s F-35 against competition from Dassault’s Rafale and Eurofighter....
International Edition