Sentences with phrase «as fighter jets»
The F - 35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history
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«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.
«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.
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 comments came as representatives Dassault Aviation and Eurofighter talked up the merits of their individual jet fighters this week at a major industry trade show in Ottawa.
While President Trump has called Lockheed's F - 35 fighter - jet program too expensive, the Commander - in - Chief remains an invaluable — if fickle — ally for the company, which counts the U.S. government as its biggest customer.
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.
Although stealthiness and excellent flight performance are generally seen as incompatible, the F - 22 puts them into a single package, earning the jet its reputation as the world's most lethal fighter.
ST. LOUIS — An old fighter jet being refurbished at a hangar in Missouri is the first of several planes being sent to the Boeing facility as the Pentagon spends the biggest budget in its history.
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.
Tanks manned by fighters for Libya's interim government shelled loyalists holding out in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown as NATO jets circled overhead, ready to renew air strikes.
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.
Equipment sold to Saudi Arabia includes Typhoon and Tornado fighter jets, as well as precision - guided bombs.
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.
Ahead for Midshipman Kane lay a distinguished career of duty well done — as fighter pilot, fighter group leader and Pacific war ace, as postwar skipper of the carrier Saipan — until the day, last February, when the electrical system of his TV - 2 jet failed and he crashed to his death.
I'll tell you what: playing as Dominique Wilkins is like flying a jet fighter.
The S - 300 sale is potentially a threat to intervention by air in the Syrian Civil War by the U.S. or its allies (the U.K. and France, for example, also participated in the chemical weapons retaliation strike in April of 2018, and Turkish aircraft have intervened in parts of the Syrian Civil War as well, for example, shooting down a Russian jet fighter which was intruding into its air space).
'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome of the panel probing past arms deals, that the purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind of horrifying graft that saw the purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre of war because they were not up to par.
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.
Ryan served as an aide to former Suffolk County Executive John V.N. Klein and Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, and was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist for Grumman, which built the F - 14 Tomcat jet fighter.
Until now, larger, fighter - jet - sized drones, such as the Predator and Reaper, have been the vehicle for attacks, the first being a strike in Yemen in 2002 by a CIA Predator.
However, there are still some barriers before carbon fiber becomes as common in airliners and minivans as it is in race cars and fighter jets.
Credit to Brucie, though, for doing his own stunts; see the old man run and fight karate - chick Maggie Q; see him jump off fighter jets; see him gawp at the techno - babble spouted by Kevin Smith's cameo as «Warlock, a digital Jedi».
Trailers featured pitched battles as Snake fought a fighter jet on the Brooklyn Bridge and snuck around various industrial locations.
Awkwardly, Stalin's daughter Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough) hangs around, as does her alcoholic brother (Rupert Friend), who would really like to speak at the funeral — a calamity that can be avoided only by a well - timed flyover by some Russian fighter jets.
Jet Li's Fearless: Jet Li stars as a renowned martial arts champion who must come face - to - face with the most ferocious fighters in the world as part of a difficult path to redemption.
Generally affable Ryan Reynolds stars as Hal Jordan, a hotshot test pilot who wrecks fighter jets and personal relationships alike, and who dodges responsibility faster than a speeding bullet.
The 510 - hp 6.2 - liter V - 8 roars toward redline as coupe is launched forward like rocket from a fighter jet.
If the Mustang is a suave, Euro - flavored GT and the Hellcat an atomic subwoofer on wheels, Chevy's groundbreaking new Camaro Z / 28 is as focused as a jet fighter.
It's definitely not as wild as some of the spaceship - and fighter jet - like designs we've come to know from Lamborghini in recent years, but there's something familiar and yet refreshing about this new concept's synthesis of elegance and purposefulness.
Hyundai says that it took inspiration for the car's design from jet fighters and says it was made to look as if it were floating.
-- A heads - up display system that shows instrument readings on the windshield, much as in some jet fighter aircraft.
Like in a jet fighter it projects important information as a virtual image directly into the driver's field of vision.
Our Lancer Ralliart featured the same fighter jet grille and hood vents as the Evo, along with the mundane, economy car profile, only broken up by a spoiler attached to the trunk lid.
I put it to work in different ways during my brief stay, first as an ice wagon toting about 300 pounds of ice to the high school concession stand, then as a nice luxury accompaniment for an evening out, and finally as a purpose - built fighter jet for the run to the airport to board a far more mundane transportation appliance.
The flat - bottomed steering wheel in the driver focused cockpit looks as though it was taken from a modern fighter jet, with buttons on top of buttons in various different colors.
Driving the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 convertible is perhaps best described as piloting an open - cockpit jet fighter.
The truck obviously takes its name and styling cues from America's premier fighter, going so far as to incorporate the jet's silhouette into its grille and side mirrors.
The interior features wood and leather trim along with a load of interesting high - tech features, such as a starting system that is similar to a jet fighter.
The Blue Angels and their fighter jets served as an inspiration underpinning Maxima's interior and exterior designs.
No element of high - style design is missing in the KOUP concept as illustrated by its greenhouse - integrated, panoramic - view glass with two panels extending from the windshield through the roof to the backlight, appearing as two parallel pieces of glass — similar to a fighter jet cockpit.
So thats 10 - 12 vehichles right there, and that's not counting fighter jets and attack boats which only appear on certain maps such as Caspian Border, and Kharg Island.
Possible strategies right off the top of my head: go from fighter to Battroid, let a pursuing jet overtake you and lead it with your MG as it goes past.
Players are put in the cockpit of an Arwing, a futuristic fighter jet, and are tasked with shooting down as many of Andros» minions as they can.
Boss battles boom on an epic scale such as taking on ancient Dragons to jumping onto the back of a fighter jet while you take on the armies of heaven... it's just pure fun!
The demo features two complete missions from the game, one of which features you as a pilot of an attack helicopter and the other in the cockpit of a fighter jet.
Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced a delivery of F - 52 fighter jets to Norway as a gesture to bolster defense in Northern Europe.
Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy +: Play as the legendary pilot Phoenix and control fighter jets that exist in real - life.
You play as Nick Reyes, an ace jet fighter pilot that quickly becomes the captain of his own ship which is ultimately trying to track and take down Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington which plays the role of Bad Guy and leader of the SDF.
Earlier today a trailer for Squadron 42 was released, and I have to say that this might as well have Wing Commander in its title (watch the trailer for yourselves, but any fan of the series would be hard - pressed not to see the «Tigers Claw» carrier and «Hornet» & «Kilrathi» fighter jets) because Chris Roberts is back!