Sentences with phrase «for fighter jets»

The actual non-confidence vote, only the sixth in Canadian history, found the government in contempt of Parliament for refusing to supply full cost estimates for fighter jets, crime bills and corporate tax cuts.

Not exact matches

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.

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

That aviation company consists of what he calls the world's largest air force, with more than 50 jet fighters, and offers simulated threats for training exercises for one of its clients, the U.S. Department of Defense.

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 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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has announced that the SAAB Gripen NG fighter jet has been selected for the FX - 2 program of the Brazilian Air Force.

And they can claim to be saving the public money for better purposes — like buying F - 35 fighter jets and building jails!

All of this is small beer compared to the massive costs of new F - 35 fighter jets alone, estimated at up to $ 30 billion, but for voters still reeling from a recession the Conservatives» offerings may be appealing.

The government is already studying issues related to equipping its new F - 35 stealth fighter jets with air - to - surface missiles, and Japan is prioritizing new investments in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance that would be necessary for supporting enemy base strikes.

But for some reason, the U.S. recently shot down a Syrian fighter jet, prompting warnings from Syria's leading allies, Russia and Iran.

However, the government says it remains committed to withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from Iraq and Syria, where they have been bombing ISIL targets for more than a year.

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.

Mr. Speaker, in May the Conservative government promised there would be an open competition for Canada's next generation of fighter jets.

Two weeks before the Liberals formally called for a reset of the fighter jet procurement process, representatives from Boeing and Dassault testified before the defence committee about their warplanes.

He said: Analysis of our mandatory requirements for Canada's next fighter jet made it clear that only a fifth generation fighter could satisfy these requirements in the increasingly complex future security environment.

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

After laying out the plan to buy many new fighter jets, lots of new naval ships, and even drones, the defence minister's policy can't be faulted for lacking ambition.

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:

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.

Government minister have provided political legitimacy for the strikes, while UK made fighter jets have flown overhead and British bombs have been dropped from the skies.

The organization also urged President Trump to «use Presidential Proclamation 7750 to ban those indicted for allegedly stealing some public funds $ 2bn to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and ammunition meant for the fight against the terrorist group Boko Haram.

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).

Presidency source said Buhari used the avenue to explain why he gave approval for purchase of $ 496million worth fighter jets without budgetary allocation.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer put his weight behind a proposal in Congress to add $ 100 million in spending for the F - 35 Joint Strike Fighter, a controversial stealth fighter jet produced by Lockheed Martin Corp..

It was formed by chemicals that the defense contractor used to build fighter jets for the Navy.

Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Saturday, blamed use of obsolete maps for the tragic bombing of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Rann village of Kala - Balge Local Government Area of Borno State by Air Force fighter jets.

President Buhari was said to have arbitrarily approved the sum of $ 496 million for the purchase of Super Tucano fighter jets for the Nigerian Military without consent of the National Assembly.

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.

«The matter did not even come up for discussion during the talks [with the Pakistani government],» Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Defence Secretary, told The Hindu, adding that his government was still considering the purchase of fighter jets.

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has warned the National Assembly to halt any plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over the withdrawal of $ 462 million for the purchase of fighter jets from the United States, US.

After all, fighter jets have been zipping around faster than sound for decades, making a noise like two quick - fire rifle shots.

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.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

In 1959 and 1960, when the Air Force was testing ejection seat technology in jet fighters, Kittinger made three jumps from the stratosphere to try a parachute optimized for high - altitude bail - outs.

Similarly, trainer jets for beginning fighter pilots are built like young red - tailed hawks, with longer wings and bigger tails that provide more lift and stability at the expense of speed and maneuverability.

The pilots of two Greek fighter jets scrambled to intercept the 737 escorted it for 42 minutes.

Through such evolutionary processes, a drug that targets telomerase could seem effective at first, only to be defeated by the cancer cell line if it can (for instance) more effectively break the drug down, or prevent the drug from entering its cells, or put out the biological equivalents of the «chaff» and flares that are used by fighter jets to ward off the targeting systems of hostile missiles.

Players command more than 30 of the most powerful jet fighters ever conceived and battle for air superiority in massive dogfights in the skies above

If you're in the market for a proper jet - fighter game, I'd recommend hunting down a proper PC simulation.