Other South Africans have already been brought in to fly and maintain the new fighter aircraft that the government has just purchased from Russia.
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DON'T GROUND THIS HIGHFLIER THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has canceled production of the proposed new F-22 fighter aircraft. (The Senate may try to revive it.) Six of these planes were slated to be built next year.
Don't Ground This High-Flier THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has canceled production of the proposed new F-22 fighter aircraft. (The Senate may try to revive it.) Six of these planes were slated to be built next year.
It says the two leaders will agree on plans to build a new generation of pilotless "fighter drone" aircraft.
"China is entirely capable of producing the weaponry needed for national defense, " spokesman Geng Yansheng told reports at a monthly briefing, pointing to recent domestic technological breakthroughs such as the country's first aircraft carrier, new generation fighter jets, large transport planes and the Beidou satellite system.
Under the terms of the agreement, Japan will modify an existing F-16 design to produce by the late 1990s a new aircraft, designated the FS-X (Fighter Support Experimental).
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Pre-publication leaks tried to cast Mr Brown as the champion of defence: he would fund fully two new aircraft carriers, as well as the Typhoon fighter and the Joint Strike Fighter, all the while maintaining the army at about 100, 000 men and remaining committed to the war in Afghanistan.
The government has said it is confident there will not be a second U-turn on the type of fighter planes to be used on the navy's new aircraft carrier.
Although the Pentagon and the three services that will receive the new aircraft have stated repeatedly their full commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 program, its fate is by no means assured, particularly if defense budgets decline further than currently planned.
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It is reported that the Soviet Union has, among other things, utilized Olivetti-supplied machine tools to fabricate its new YAK-41 supersonic, short-take-off-and-landing naval fighter aircraft.
If the program of record for the fighter unfolds as planned, Boeing will be squeezed out of the market for new carrier-based aircraft and Lockheed will dominate.
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Initially, Russia hoped to sign a contract to deliver its T-50 fighter plane to India, but in the end India insisted on the joint development of a new aircraft, based on the T-50 but with modifications for the Indian Air Force.
The previous Labour government had placed orders for two new aircraft carriers to be equipped with the F-35B variant of the American-built joint strike fighter (JSF), which is capable of short take-off and vertical landing.
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