A community portal about Fighter aircraft with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for attacking other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed to...
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A community portal about Fighter aircraft with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for attacking other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. Fighters are comparatively small, fast, and maneuverable. They were developed in response to the fledgling use of aircraft and dirigibles in World War I for reconnaissance and ground attack roles. These early fighters were mostly wooden biplanes with light machine guns. As aerial warfare became increasingly important, so did control of the airspace. By World War II, fighters were predominantly metal monoplanes with wing-mounted cannon. Following the war, turbojets replaced piston engines as the means of propulsion, and missiles augmented or replaced guns. For historical purposes, jet fighters are classified by generation. The generation terminology was initiated by Russian defense parlance in referring to the F-35 Lightning II as a "fifth generation" plane. Years are not exact and intended as a guideline. Modern jet fighters are predominantly powered by one or two turbofan engines, armed primarily with missiles, with a cannon as backup armament, and equipped with a radar as the primary method of target acquisition.
Israel's plans to buy US F-35 fighters indicate its desire to be able to penetrate the Russian air defense systems Iran and Syria are set to receive, a report says. F-35 fighter aircraft can make the S-300 air defense systems ineffective, as computer simulations have shown that the new US stealth fighters outperform Russian missiles, Ria Novosti cited officials in Tel Aviv as saying. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), made by Lockheed Martin, is expected to be one of the most-advanced... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the game-changing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in early production stages, rival manufacturers are racing against time. The F-35 may be regarded almost as much as an industrial and coalition-building policy as a warplane made by Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales and the world's largest aerospace company. It is a projected trillion-dollar enterprise designed to dominate the lucrative global fighter market for decades while plugging... Read Full Story
The Brazilian air force has granted three competitors 10 more days to submit a final round of proposals to sell a minimum of 36 fighters under its FX-2 contract. The three finalists - the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Dassault Rafale F3 and Saab Gripen NG - now have until 2 October to complete their bids for the multi-billion dollar contract, according to an air force statement. Brazil is extending the tender at the request of the bidding teams. "The three competitors have shown... Read Full Story
F-35 Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter) Short clip featuring F-35 Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter) test flights and some of the earlier X-35 prototypes. From: theodenoir Views: 14301 27 ratings Time: 04:31 More in Howto & Style
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If you liked the step-by-step instruction sheet on how to build the F-35 Lightning II fighter, you will love this awesome video on how they make them at the Lockheed Martin factory. [ The Dew Line ]
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PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. government-to-government arms sales are growing fast and will likely exceed the bullish estimate of $40 billion for 2009, the Pentagon's top arms sales official said on Wednesday at the Paris Air Show. Vice Admiral Jeffrey Wieringa, head of the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, told Reuters it was unclear if arms sales would keep rising, but noted that was possible since several large weapons competitions were underway, and many countries had aging... Read Full Story
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to the government and they are using viral marketing to do it. Last June they did a mock up of the new F35 in the Thunderbirds poster. Nice! Put the idea in our minds and ….
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being promoted a lot by Lockheed Martin and they are using viral marketing to sell it. Where would they want to sell it? Read Full Story
The Swedish manufacturer SAAB has received an order valued at about SEK 350 million (€ 32,3 million) from FMV (the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration) for development of the JAS-39 Gripen system. The contract is part of Gripen’s continuous development and upgrading work and is in line with the Armed Forces’ long-term plan for Gripen. The order covers Gripen in Sweden, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Thailand. Read more Read Full Story
Under pressure from the Pentagon, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been forced to back out of a joint partnership with a Swedish aerospace company to compete in a multi-billion dollar tender to sell new multi-role fighter jets to the Indian Air Force. The deal, estimated at a whopping $12 billion for over 120 new aircraft, is being fought over by Lockheed Martin's F-16, Boeing's F-18/Hornet, Russia's MiG-35 and BAE's Eurofighter. IAI was asked by Saab, manufacturer of the Gripen, to... Read Full Story
Joining the elite club of fighter-aircraft producing nations, Pakistan on Tuesday began final assembly of its first indigenous JF-17 Thunder strike fighter at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex. The JF-17 Thunder is an advanced multi-role combat aircraft, designed jointly by engineers from Pakistan and China, and built to the Pakistan Air Force’s specifications. Source Read Full Story
