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• Valerie Insinna
Lockheed Martin is contracted to deliver 141 F-35 fighters this year, but COVID-19 restrictions and supply chain struggles raise doubts about meeting the target. The situation underscores how procurement timelines can slip when upstream production and delivery flows don’t keep pace.
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• Vivek Raghuvanshi
By DefenseNews.com: The Indian Air Force is overhauling its plan to induct 114 medium-weight multirole fighters, with a senior service official saying the aircraft will be built in India with significant foreign technology transfer and no foreign procurement.
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• Valerie Insinna
By DefenseNews.com: Day-to-day restrictions on supersonic flight won't stop pilots from pushing the F-35 to the limits in combat, an F-35 test pilot tells Defense News.
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• Valerie Insinna
By DefenseNews.com: Only about 100 of the more than 6,000 Boeing workers to be laid off this week will come from its defense division.
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• Valerie Insinna
By DefenseNews.com: The U.S. Air Force officially launched a competition for Skyborg contracts on May 15.
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• Valerie Insinna
By DefenseNews.com: The Air Force has opened up the final stage of the B-52 engine replacement effort.
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• Mike Yeo
By DefenseNews.com: Defense News has been given access to several images of different F-16D Block 52 Fighting Falcons in service with the Republic of Singapore Air Force, revealing the aircraft are equipped with Elbit Condor 2 Long Range Oblique Photography systems on their centerline station.
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• Valerie Insinna
By DefenseNews.com: The Navy plans to curtail Super Hornet production in fiscal 2022. It remains unclear, however, whether that effort will be successful.
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• Nathan Strout
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• Sebastian Sprenger
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• Valerie Insinna
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• Valerie Insinna
