Italy’s association of defense firms not happy with the F-35 Workshare Program

Guido Crosetto, the head of Italian aerospace and defense industry association (AIAD) is crying foul on the F-35 workshare program saying Lockheed Martin has broken promises. Crosetto stated that Italian companies have not been given any maintenance contracts on the F-35. Small Italian firms were excluded because the competition favored large companies,” said Crosetto. Rome currently plans to […]

Italy’s Association of Defense Firms not Happy With the F-35 Workshare Program

Guido Crosetto, the head of Italian aerospace and defense industry association (AIAD) is crying foul on the F-35 workshare program saying Lockheed Martin has broken promises. Crosetto stated that Italian companies have not been given any maintenance contracts on the F-35. “Small Italian firms were excluded because the competition favored large companies,” said Crosetto. Rome currently plans to […]

Latest F-35 purchase drops below $100 million per aircraft for the first time

The Pentagon announced that the latest lot purchase of 90 F-35 fighter jets dropped to below $95 million per aircraft. This is the lowest per unit price for the stealth fighter yet and was a savings of $728 million compared to the last batch of F-35s purchased. This news came after President Trump announced that […]

Latest F-35 Purchase Drops Below $100 Million Per Aircraft for the First Time

The Pentagon announced that the latest lot purchase of 90 F-35 fighter jets dropped to below $95 million per aircraft. This is the lowest per unit price for the stealth fighter yet and was a savings of $728 million compared to the last batch of F-35s purchased. This news came after President Trump announced that […]

Trump negotiates new F-35 deal at an estimated $700 million in savings

The F-35 Lighting II, an aircraft that makes alternate headlines for being the most expensive weapons platform ever made and for suffering repeated technical setbacks, just got a little bit cheaper, and it would appear that the US government has Donald Trump to thank for that. Lockheed Martin, the defense and aerospace company tasked with […]

Watch: Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airships! Will Airships Soon Fill the Skies?

Will airships make a comeback? Lockheed Martin thinks so and has invested substantial amounts of money and the last 20 years into developing new technology for their Hybrid Airships. Lockheed Martin claims that two-thirds of the world’s land areas and more than half the world’s population do not have access to paved roads or runways. These […]

Watch: Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airships! Will Airships Soon Fill the Skies?

Will airships make a comeback? Lockheed Martin thinks so and has invested substantial amounts of money and the last 20 years into developing new technology for their Hybrid Airships. Lockheed Martin claims that two-thirds of the world’s land areas and more than half the world’s population do not have access to paved roads or runways. […]

Lockheed Martin CEO Commits to 1800 new jobs and reduced F-35 costs

After meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower, Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said she would increase jobs in their Fort Worth F-35 facility by 1,800 and find ways to lower the cost of the aircraft. We are going to increase our jobs in Fort Worth by 1,800 jobs and when you think about the […]

Textron’s first production Scorpion Jet completes first flight and weapons testing

Textron Inc. announced the first flight of a production conforming Scorpion Jet on December 22. The company also recently completed successful initial weapons testing on the Scorpion which included launching rockets, firing AGM-114F Hellfire missiles and BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS). Photo Courtesy of Textron “The success of the first weapons capability exercise is […]

Watch: Inside Look at the F-35 Flight Simulator!

Take a look at the inside of an F-35 Lightning II flight simulator! Anyone who loves aviation and especially military aviation will want to take a look at this video of the F-35 simulator.  Pretty amazing how realistic training can be in these simulator systems. In all of the simulators, F-35 software is used to […]

Lockheed Martin CEO tells Trump she’ll work to drive down cost of F-35

The chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp told President-elect Donald Trump on Friday that she was committed to driving down the cost of the company’s F-35 fighter jet, a day after Trump took aim at the cost of the F-35 in a Twitter post. CEO Marillyn Hewson said she spoke with Trump on Friday afternoon […]