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  Canada Taps Market for Fighter Options

  Posted by Amy Svitak 2:53 PM on Jan 09, 2013

  As Ottawa rethinks a plan to purchase Lockheed-Martin F-35s, the Canadian government has contacted five companies as part of a market analysis of fighter aircraft options. In a Dec... Read More >>

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  More on no F-35s

  Posted by Christina Mackenzie 8:13 AM on Dec 07, 2012

  Stewart Webb, whom I mentioned in my earlier post about Canada's withdrawal from the F-35 program and whom I wasn't able to call at the time because it was too early in British Col... Read More >>

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  Canada cancels F-35 procurement

  Posted by Christina Mackenzie 7:34 AM on Dec 07, 2012

  Canada will cancel its intended purchase of 65 F-35s, according to a report in the Ottawa Citizen. (Our Reuters story is here too.) The newspaper reports that the imminent releas... Read More >>

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  Up in the Air

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 1:55 PM on Oct 17, 2012

  After publicly pledging to bring back the F-22 Raptor , and then having campaign surrogates adjust his message in favor of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Republican presidential ca... Read More >>

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  Video: F-35B First Aerial Weapons Release

  Posted by Sean Meade 3:11 PM on Aug 09, 2012

  Amy Butler sent along this video from Lockheed Martin. From the description: On Aug. 8, an F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft completed the program's firs... Read More >>

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  F-35 JSF's Surprising Sonic Boom

  Posted by Guy Norris 6:01 PM on Aug 03, 2012

  A couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to spend a day with a NASA and Air Force test team in the Mojave Desert near Edwards AFB. The day involved testing a small unmanned ai... Read More >>

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  I'll Scratch Your (F-35) Back If You'll Scratch Mine (JSM)

  Posted by Sean Meade 5:36 PM on Jun 25, 2012

  For all the arguing about the Joint Strike Fighter that we've done here on Ares, some of the factors and decisions simply come down to economics. Robert Wall has a story in this we... Read More >>

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  Future Thunderbird Aircraft Pix Loose On The Web

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 1:59 PM on Jul 21, 2009

  Lockheed Martin’s art department has produced a striking nine-picture series of F-35As flying in the colors of the USAF Thunderbird aerial demonstration team, It wasn’t... Read More >>

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  Israel Says $100 Million Per F-35 Is Enough

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 8:54 PM on Feb 25, 2009

  In trying to put Joint Strike Fighter export issues into perspective, an Israeli Air Force general says price is the biggest issue, industrial participation by home industries is s... Read More >>

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  Stealth Is Not Enough

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 6:11 PM on Feb 11, 2009

  At war, alone and in the dark. Unafraid? Probably not, but you’ll have lots of people and machines to talk to.The 1991 image of a string of F-117 Night Hawks attacking Bahgda... Read More >>

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