News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
The man in charge of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, Lockheed Martin vice-president Tom Burbage, has told the BBC that sales of the fighter jet could far exceed earlier predictions. Mr Burbage said he expected the US and the other eight...
News Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram
| 5 months ago
Lockheed Martin executives ventured to the Paris Air Show prepared to extol the virtues of the F-35 joint strike fighter that the company is developing, and they have. But the venerable F-16 still commands a large share of the limelight after more...
News Source: The Motley Fool
| 5 months ago
But as with so many wedded couples, we learned this week that there's ... Trouble in paradise You may not have heard, but over in Paris, there's a shindig going on as airplane makers from around the globe hobnob and shop their wares to willing buyers.
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
U.S. government-to-government arms sales are growing fast and will likely exceed the bullish estimate of $40 billion for 2009, the Pentagon's top arms sales official said on Wednesday at the Paris Air Show. Vice Admiral Jeffrey Wieringa, head of the...
News Source: Xtra News
| 5 months ago
US defence group Lockheed Martin said Wednesday it had received 31 firm orders for its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) plane and foresaw potential sales coming to 6,000. "We have 31 production airplanes in backlog -- that means in contract," Thomas...
News Source: MarketWatch
| 5 months ago
If I take a look at the entire inventory of the world, and those that are flying F-16, the F-15 and other fourth-generation aircraft, as those airplanes age out, I believe my airplane will be competitive," said David Heinz, the F-35 program's head...