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Attention Shoppers: Price Drop in Aisle F-35
The United States wants to kick-start efforts to interest Canada and other nations in the F-35 fighter by driving down costs through boosting its production. The Pentagon has proposed a bulk purchase...
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Will Lockheed Martin bid the C-130J for the RCAF’s fixed wing search and...
Alenia and Airbus are keen to put in their bids on Canada’s fixed wing search and rescue (FWSAR) project. The winning bidder is expected to be selected next year. The new planes will replace the Royal...
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First F-35 flight outside the U.S. to take place with Italian aircraft
The first F-35 flight outside the U.S. will take place in October when Italy’s first F-35 begins test flights after rolling off the country’s final assembly line, my Defense News colleague Tom Kington...
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Lockheed Martin wants to drop price of F-35 to $80 million per airplane by 2019
Lorraine Martin, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program manager, has told reporters at the Paris Air Show that by 2018, 50 per cent of the F-35s on order will be for international customers (i.e. the partner...
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Lockheed Martin searching for markets for a C-130J maritime variant
Lockheed Martin will offer a variant of its C-130J Hercules to Britain as a maritime patrol aircraft. The company says it could convert the U.K. Royal Air Force’s existing fleet of C-130J airlifters...
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In defence of the F-35
Loren Thompson of Forbes defends the F-35. He says the program is becoming a smashing success. “The F-35 is shaping up to be the greatest combat aircraft in history,” he writes. “That isn’t my...
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Lockheed Martin to buy Sikorsky, says report
Lockheed Martin will buy United Technologies Corp’s Sikorsky Aircraft for over $8 billion, Reuters news agency is reporting. The deal will add further heft to Lockheed, which already has annual...
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Lockheed Martin’s purchase of Sikorsky – are some defence firms getting too big?
As Defence Watch readers know, Lockheed Martin has announced its intention to purchase helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Lockheed Martin leads a group of the U.S. Defense Department’s top five...
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Retired Danish fighter pilots favour the Super Hornet over the F-35 and...
Some Defence Watch readers have been pointing to a recent article published by Politiken, a Danish newspaper. The piece was written by three former Royal Danish Air Force pilots – Michael Huusom, Niels...
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CAE wins defence contracts related to Predator drones, C-130Js
CAE announced today that it has won defence contracts valued at more than $120 million to provide simulation products, operational systems and training services for military customers. Some of the key...
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Canada could pull out of F-35 deal without financial penalty: procurement expert
Canada could pull out of the F-35 project without facing financial penalties but a Liberal government likely wouldn’t be able to exclude the plane’s manufacturer from bidding in an open competition for...
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Trudeau turns sights on Mulcair in attack on F-35s
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau turned the defence of his plan to scrap the purchase of F-35s into an attack on Tom Mulcair, accusing the NDP leader of reversing his position on the fighter jets. Trudeau...
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Fixed Wing Search and Rescue project faces another delay
Bids were supposed to be in Sept. 28 for the Fixed Wing Search and Rescue aircraft project. But that won’t be happening. The process has now been extended and bids for the new aircraft for the RCAF...
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Lockheed Martin gets approval to buy Sikorsky
Lockheed Martin has been given approval by U.S. regulators to buy Sikorsky aircraft. The deal is worth $9 billion U.S. U.S. regulators examined the proposed purchase for two months. The purchase is now...
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Top Pentagon officials worry Lockheed’s purchase of Sikorsky will limit...
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for acquisition, has raised some concerns about the move by Lockheed Martin to purchase Sikorsky. He and others are worried the deal will limit competition...
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Competition in Canadian fighter jet project would benefit taxpayers,...
On Sept. 24 Richard Shimooka had an opinion piece in the National Post arguing that the F-35 is still the best bet for Canada. He stated that a competition would be a costly and largely pointless...
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Center fuselage for first F-35 aircraft that will be eventually be assembled...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed the center fuselage for the first F-35 Lightning II aircraft to be assembled in Japan’s F-35 Final Assembly and Checkout (FACO) facility in Nagoya, Japan,...
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Sole-sourcing the F-35 the best option for Canada, says analyst
On Sept. 24 Richard Shimooka had an opinion piece in the National Post arguing that the F-35 is still the best bet for Canada. He stated that a competition would be a costly and largely pointless...
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F-35 fires gun for the first time while airborne
The F-35 has fired its gun system for the first time while airborne. Here is what Lockheed Martin had to say about that: The F-35A Lightning II completed the first three airborne gunfire bursts from...
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Government sets up new office to buy replacement aircraft for CF-18s
The federal government has started taking action on a Liberal promise to dump the F-35 stealth fighter and purchase a cheaper aircraft to replace the military’s CF-18 jets. Public Services and...
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