Sentences with phrase «us fighter jet»

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.

«I would be concerned that Russia could take a tit for tat approach and down a Turkish fighter jet at some at point in the future, but an incident in 2012 when Syria shot down a Turkish fighter jet shows that perhaps cooler heads will prevail, as that incident did not further escalate,» Zilberman told Business Insider.

And so we have an answer to that,» a pilot flying an EA - 18G Growler, the US Navy's electronic attack version of the F - 18 carrier - based fighter jet, told GMA News Online.

Think of other government projects — gas plants, fighter jet procurements, eHealth.

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.

China unveiled its new stealth fighter jet, the Chengdu J - 20, showing off its military strength as the nation continues to expand their presence in the aviation market.

The Shenyang J - 31 Falcon Eagle or Gyrfalcon (or «FC - 31 fifth Generation Multi-Purpose Medium Fighter»), is China's second stealth fighter jet.

Trump recently criticized the cost of the company's F - 35 fighter jet program.

One thing (prop planes) led him to another (corporate jets) and then to another (surplus military jets), culminating in 2012 with the founding of Draken International, a Lakeland, Florida, military contractor that operates one of the largest fleets of privately owned fighter jets in the world.

OTTAWA — Companies vying to build Canada's new fighter jets are cranking up their sales pitches, but they'll be waiting a while longer to learn whether the Harper government intends to hold a full competition — or stick with the troubled F - 35 program.

Lockheed hit its 2017 target to deliver 66 F - 35 fighter jets to the United States and its allies last year.

F - 35 fighter jets to Taiwan, saying it would help it «remain a democracy» in the face of threats from China.

Hicks also told Congressional investigators that the Pentagon denied his request to fly fighter jets over the Benghazi attacks in the hopes of «scattering» the attackers.

California - based Cubic Corp. provides a lot of information technology to the US military, including the Cubic P5 Combat Training System for the F - 35 fighter jet.

It was also recently contracted to develop a laser for US fighter jets.

Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman all recently received contracts to develop a laser weapon for US fighter jets.

The US has a large number of fighter jets and about 40,000 troops based in the South.

The pilot, Tammie Jo Shults, who used to fly US Navy fighter jets, guided the airplane, which took off from New York and was bound for Dallas, to a landing in Philadelphia.

Asked about Airbus's possible role in a new European fighter jet project, Enders said the group was in «good discussions» with other companies that may take part, especially with Dassault.

Canada earlier this month scrapped plans to buy 18 Boeing Super Hornet fighter jets, underlining Ottawa's anger over the trade challenge.

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

Still, reviving interest in the F / A -18 Super Hornet sparked by none other than President Trump may help revive the company's fighter jet business.

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

US Air Force B - 1B Lancer bombers escorted by fighter jets flew east of North Korea in a show of force after a heated exchange of rhetoric between Trump and Kim.

«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.

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.

Lockheed Martin often combines virtual reality with real - world equipment when training pilots to fly fighter jets.

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.

Lockheed Martin Corp's new F - 35 fighter jet has completed over a third of its planned flight tests, but it is still facing problems with the helmet needed to fly the plane, software development and weapons integration, according to a report by the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.

Obama's increases would allow for next - generation F - 35 fighter jets, for ships and submarines and for long - range Air Force tankers.

I still remember Marc Benioff's ad in which a fighter jet shoots down a biplane.

Whether it was somebody trying to sell a F - 18 fighter jet, the original Hollywood sign or even William Shatner's kidney stone, it was one goofy stunt after another.

Shelton's lack of pretention is evident in a Gildan spot featuring a high - strung director explaining that the commercial they're about to shoot will feature fighter jets, dancers and pyrotechnics.

The episode comes just over a week after a HAF pilot died after his Mirage 2000 - 5 fighter jet crashed near the island of Skyros.

«A Russian Su - 35 fighter jet, performing an air cover mission at an altitude of 10,000 meters, swiftly approached the F - 22 from the rear, forcing the American aircraft to leave the area.»

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.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

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.

To be sure, if Americans are at the controls of fighter jets en route to Hawaii, of course Obama could order that they be fired upon.

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

Hooper's announcement was welcomed at the air show, where U.S. companies are showcasing a wide range of military equipment, including Lockheed's F - 35 stealth fighter jet and its CH - 53K heavy - lift helicopter, and Boeing Co's CH - 47 Chinook twin - rotor helicopter.

U.S. Lieutenant General Charles Hooper, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, announced the change during an interview at the ILA Berlin Air Show, where Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co and U.S. companies are showcasing helicopters, fighter jets and other military equipment.

Earlier this month Canada's government ditched plans to buy 18 new Super Hornet fighter jets made by Boeing.

The self - made billionaire also counts an extravagant lineup of cars, World War II fighter jets, real estate, and two sports teams — the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trailblazers — among his luxurious array of assets.

Since its maiden flight in January 2011 ten prototypes were manufactured (Note: the two demonstrators 2001, 2002 = now 2004, + the prototypes 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and two static test specimen) and that this type is to be the third stealth fighter jet to enter operational service following the United States» F - 22 Raptor and the F - 35 Lightning II.

A Russian interceptor has been scrambled to stop a rogue US fighter jet from actively interfering with an anti-terrorist operation, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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.