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Turkey’s Stealth Fighter to Make First Flight In 2025: Erdoğan

Turkey’s Stealth Fighter to Make First Flight In 2025: Erdoğan

ANKARA — The National Combat Aircraft (MMU), Turkey’s long-awaited 5th generation fighter jet, will make its first flight in 2025, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday.

Turkey’s first indigenous combat aircraft will emerge from the hangar in 2023, he said at a mass opening ceremony o…

Contract Launches Upgrade of Japan’s F-15J Fighters

Contract Launches Upgrade of Japan’s F-15J Fighters

Japan has awarded the U.S. aerospace giant Boeing Co. a $470 million contract to upgrade its fleet of F-15J Eagles, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

The contract awarded in December calls for the development of an integrated aircraft systems to support modification of Japan’s F-15MJ airc…

S. Korea May Put Hypersonic Missile Into Service By Late 2020s

S. Korea May Put Hypersonic Missile Into Service By Late 2020s

North Korea’s not the only one developing hypersonic missiles — South Korea is too. In August 2020, then-South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo said that Korea would accelerate the development of hypersonic missiles during a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Agency…
Pentagon Awards $1.6Bn Contract for V-22 Support

Pentagon Awards $1.6Bn Contract for V-22 Support

Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, California, Maryland, is awarded a not-to-exceed $1,643,701,284 firm-fixed-price, performance-based logistics requirements contract for the repair, replacement, required availability, configuration management, and inventory management for supply support for 228 MV-2…
New-Type Chinese Rotorcraft Passes Acceptance Review

New-Type Chinese Rotorcraft Passes Acceptance Review

A type of blended wing body multi-rotor vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which is a key national defense project of China that’s expected to play both military and civilian roles, has passed an acceptance review, with analysts saying on Thursday that the new aircraft could offer higher flexibi…
Airbus Investors Sue for €300M Over Bribery Scandal

Airbus Investors Sue for €300M Over Bribery Scandal

Airbus SE is facing a 300 million euro ($340 million) lawsuit from a group of investors over allegations it failed to properly disclose a sprawling corruption scandal and subsequent settlement.

The lawsuit, filed in the Netherlands, was served against the French aircraft maker, its auditors as we…


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