Defense One reported that Lockheed Martin has paused production of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft at a Japanese factory of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries due to the outbreak of the #coronavirus outbreak. This was stated by a senior Pentagon official. To some employees of an Italian company interested in the production of parts of the F-35, of [...]
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The news has just been published by Defense One that Lockheed Martin wants to propose to the Pentagon a solution to reduce the cost of operating the F-35: sign a maintenance contract for five years instead of negotiating a new one every year. Another proposal is to supply a large number of spare parts to keep 80 percent [...]
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The Paris Aerospace Show in Le bourgette is always an opportunity for strategic meetings between “global” companies in the sector. The meeting between senior representatives of #Airbus and #Lockheed Martin did not go unnoticed. At the center of the business meeting, the exploratory bases for new US military opportunities in the field of in-flight refueling aircraft, the best known [...]
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389 million euros are to be paid to Lockheed Martin to honor the supply of the F35 fighters already delivered to Italy. The invoices, as reported by La Stampa, show the date of the Gentiloni government, since then the Defense has never ordered payments. The dicastery, caught in the chestnut: “We will immediately fulfill what is due. Within [...]
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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a 250 million dollar NASA contract for the development of a supersonic jet capable of not creating the typical boom created by overcoming the so-called “sound barrier”; generally, the speed of such a plane is so high that the molecules of the air [...]
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