Sentences with phrase «fighters jet on»

«Boeing's challenge is an authentic business decision, yet Ottawa seems untroubled about once again playing Sir Galahad, not only intervening on Bombardier's behalf, but also putting the problem - plagued effort to buy new fighter jets on the line, solely for the benefit of a privileged Quebec family and the people they employ,» Kelly McParland wrote in the National Post.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Air Force has confirmed the death of many suspected leaders of Boko Haram in a recent air strike carried out by Nigeria Air Force fighter jets on locations believed to be hideouts of the deadly insurgents, an official said.

Trailers featured pitched battles as Snake fought a fighter jet on the Brooklyn Bridge and snuck around various industrial locations.

Not exact matches

«It brings a tremendous capability to our U.S. services, as well as to our allies around the world that are purchasing the aircraft because it's more than just an aircraft, it's more than a jet fighter; it is an information node with the sensor capability to communicate with every system on the battlefield.

A new contract for more F - 35 fighter jets will take time, given the focus on cost, the CEO of the world's largest defense contractor says.

A new contract for more F - 35 fighter jets will take time, given the focus on cost, Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson tells CNBC.

A new contract for more F - 35 fighter jets will take time, given the focus on cost, Lockheed Martin's CEO tells CNBC.

A PLA Navy fleet including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, submarines, vessels and fighter jets take part in a review in the South China Sea on April 12, 2018.

Britain on Wednesday scrambled RAF Typhoon fighter jets to escort a Ryanair flight from Lithuania after a hoax security alert.

Japan wants to build a new, advanced fighter jet based on existing Western designs, and is asking the U.S. and Europe to help.

The business won a new contract from Kuwait for 28 F - 18 fighter jets, as well as made further progress on its delayed KC - 46 program and completed the first power - on test of its Starliner spacecraft for NASA's commercial crew program.

The combined forces will focus on taking out North Korea's artillery installations and blocking an invasion, while six F - 22 Raptor fighter jets, six US Marine Corps F - 35B jump jets, and 12 US Air Force F - 35As patrol the skies with all - aspect stealth that Pyongyang would never see coming.

On my visit, I «fly» an F - 16 and take a tour to see how the company is using VR to train pilots of the world's most advanced fighter jet, the F - 35 Lightning II.

Kyd said: «But I think this ship ushers in an era of even closer co-operation with the United States, and indeed we're looking forward to hosting US Marine Corps lightning jet fighters on here in due course.»

On January 25, a Russian fighter jet also conducted an «unsafe and unprofessional» interception of a US reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea, according to US European Command.

Those alloys, a series of chemicals limited in mineable concentration on Earth, are key to the production of many modern technologies, everything from smart phones to fighter jets.

Dealing with the second incident, U.S. officials told Fox News that a USAF F - 22 Raptor stealth fighter flew in front of a pair of Russian Air Force Su - 25 Frogfoot attack jets near Al Mayadin, Syria, «an area off - limits to Russian jets based on a long - standing mutual agreement».

On July 15 - 16, rogue soldiers commandeered fighters jets, helicopters and tanks to close bridges and try to seize airports.

The prototype of what is believed to be the China's second stealth fighter jet performed its maiden flight on Oct 31, when it took off at 10:32 AM Local Time from the runway of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation facility.

A pair of fighter jets had to escort two commercial planes to Atlanta's Hartsfield - Jackson International Airport after authorities deemed bomb threats made on Twitter credible.

The ship's 5,200 sailors arm, repair, launch and recover seven to 20 Super Hornet fighter jets every day that drop on average 10 bombs each or reconnoiter in support of anti-ISIS coalition forces.

TOKYO — U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin has approached Japan with plans for a next - generation fighter jet based on its elite F - 22 stealth fighter, demonstrating both Washington's trust in Tokyo as a defense partner and its eagerness to balance the scales on trade with expensive equipment.

In commenting on the information provided by the Government to the House of Commons on the costs of the fighter jets, the proposed crime legislation and the projections of corporate profits, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) did provide an assessment of these estimates [2] in their report to the Committee.

The Conservatives did not even ask the American or European governments for classified information on other fighter jets.

On Monday, the Department of Defense announced in its daily digest of defense contracts that Lockheed Martin had been awarded a one - year, $ 1.4 billion logistics contract to service F - 35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets that have been sold to the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy, as well as to foreign buyers.

For anyone awake early enough on a Midwest Sunday morning, TV programming would often start with Air Force fighter jet footage set to «The Pilot's Prayer» by John Gillespie Magee:

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

Too bad they are not civilized enough to send drones, fighter jets, million dollar F16s, high - tech missiles raining on apt.

The US could put some real pressure on Israel if it wanted to restrict the expansion of settlements by simply saying: More settlements equals no free American jet fighters.

Before the game, four Air Force jets flew over Arrowhead Stadium, and an officer presented Thomas with a yellow bandanna that had a pattern of fighter planes printed on it.

Two years after the war, as a Navy test pilot, his P - 80 Shooting Star fighter jet would crash on takeoff in a Panamanian jungle, costing him both arms.

Trump confirmed sales of 12 sophiscated fighter jets to Nigeria, noting that he has removed embargo on the sales of military weapons to the country.

Consequently, a combination of NAF fighter aircraft namely the F7 - Ni, Alpha Jet and L - 39 ZA aircraft was detailed to carry out air interdiction on the BHT gathering.

Building a real jet fighter takes something on the order of a thousand to ten thousand times as many people to make as a major TV movie.

A series of earthshaking noises that left some residents on the East Coast wondering if they had lived through an earthquake yesterday afternoon were sonic booms caused by the testing of a fighter jet, officials said.

A Turkish Air Force F - 16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su - 24M Fencer Bomber near the Syria — Turkey border on 24 November 2015.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Mashall Sadique Abubakar has personally commanded fighter jets in the war on terror to motivate fighter - pilots into putting in their best.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar has personally commanded fighter jets in the war on terror to motivate fighter - pilots into putting in their best.

On November, 18 2016, NAF fighter jets again carried out a series of coordinated air strikes against BHT locations at Ngoshe.»

When the Air Force needs to fly their fuel - hungry fighter jets across oceans and continents without landing, they rely on flying gas stations like the KC - 10 Extender tanker to keep them aloft.

Last October, BioJet 1 — a 1968 Czechoslovakian L - 29 fighter jet — reached around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) on 100 percent biodiesel during a test flight in Reno, Nev..

Imagine a future in which jet fighters can navigate and land on aircraft carriers autonomously and search - and - rescue teams can pinpoint a person's exact location even in the remotest spots on or below the Earth.

They built a special camera and in 2002 flew with it on an F - 18 fighter jet at 49,000 feet, where the sky is much clearer.

A report predicts fighter jocks may not need speedy, agile jet fighters because they could rely on long - range sensors, smart missiles and swarms of smart robotic machines to attack from afar

Your body doesn't so much «switch» to anaerobic but instead turns on the anaerobic system, in the same sense that fighter jet pilots don't «switch» to the afterburners to go supersonic but rather use them in addition to current engine power.

With Training Day's Antoine Fuqua directing, everything is shaping up fairly plausibly until, suddenly and surely improbably, an unidentified plane isn't intercepted until it's just a mile from the centre of Washington DC, two state - of - the - art fighter jets are downed by machine guns and the Secret Service has to hold off the subsequent attack on the White House — codenamed Olympus — armed with nothing more than handguns.

He takes out a helicopter with a car (because he ran out of bullets) and eventually takes on a fighter jet in the climax.

His reticent desperation unfurls two-fold: at work with prodding pleas to his commanding officer (Bruce Greenwood) to be return to a real fighter jet and at home where his day job (worked during the graveyard shift) of «engaging hostiles» stands in sharp contract to swilling PBR and grilling porterhouses on a Kenmore 4 top.

I reach for the fighter - jet - inspired toggles in the center stack, flipping the drive mode switch until it settles on Snow / Wet, desensitizing the throttle a bit and preparing the traction and stability control systems for extra slip.

Let's just say I went very fast, very quickly, before nailing the brakes, which decelerated the Panamera like a fighter jet snagging the arrest wire on the deck of an aircraft carrier.