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Lockheed Martin starts process to provide F-35s to Denmark – will Boeing...
If Lockheed Martin is worried about the potential of a legal challenge by Boeing over Denmark’s proposed purchase of the F-35, then the company isn’t showing it. Denmark rejected the Boeing Super...
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Grounded F-35s expected back in the air by December – fix involves cutting...
The U.S. military hopes to have the F-35 fighters, grounded because of problems with insulation around a cooling system, back in the air by the end of the year. A total of 15 F-35A fighter jets have...
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Defence industry update – contracts and other developments
Esprit de Corps magazine, in its latest issue, has these details on developments in the defence and aerospace industry: Lockheed Martin got some welcome news when the United Kingdom reaffirmed its...
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Lockheed Martin’s C-130J a no show for RCAF’s fixed wing search and rescue...
The bids went in Monday for the Canadian government’s $3.1 billion fixed wing search and rescue (FWSAR) program. Embraer, Alenia and Airbus all bid. But the talk of the aerospace industry centers on...
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Lockheed Martin reverses course – admits it didn’t bid on Canada’s fixed wing...
Lockheed Martin has decided to reverse its questionable public relations strategy and finally confirm what was reported last week – that it did not submit a bid for the Canadian government’s fixed wing...
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Lockheed Martin and F-35 program office confident they can deal with safety...
Defence Watch readers will recall the posts about the ongoing safety issues with the F-35 ejection seat. This new statement on the situation comes via Lockheed Martin and the F-35 program office: The...
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Sweden trying to sell India next generation Gripen – Lockheed Martin offers...
Sweden’s government is trying to cut a deal with India for that country to buy Saab’s next generation Gripen fighter jet. Meetings took place last week in India, the end result being that Sweden and...
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Defence industry update part two
Esprit de Corps magazine, in its latest issue, has these details on developments in the defence and aerospace industry: L-3 Marine Systems UK recently announced it had been awarded a design development...
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Defence Minister doesn’t think Canadian jobs related to F-35 are at risk
The issue of the Canadian government’s intentions on the F-35 program came up Tuesday at the Commons defence committee. Liberal government Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan repeated his previous line that...
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Update on the defence industry – new contracts and work being pursued
Here is an update on defence industry news from my latest article in Esprit de Corps magazine: Nortrax recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Ottawa, just off of Highway 7 west of...
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Boeing challenges Danish decision to go with F-35 – company says Danes used...
Lockheed Martin Canada has been strangely silent about trumpeting the news that the F-35 was selected by the Danes. Nothing was sent out to Canadian journalists; no marketing push came from the company...
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Danes make it official – 27 F-35s to be purchased
Denmark confirmed it will purchase 27 F-35s in a deal worth more around $3 billion U.S. As Aaron Mehta of Defense News pointed out, the news was not unexpected, since the Danish government announced in...
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First it was Trudeau, now it is Trump – Lockheed Martin has its hands full on...
From one fire to another. Lockheed Martin is trying to figure out how to proceed with the Canadian market after the Trudeau government dropped the bombshell yesterday about the Super Hornet interim...
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Nossal: Super Hornets – How Trudeau played politics with defence procurement
We shouldn’t be surprised that Canada is going to buy an interim fleet of 18 Boeing Super Hornets. The Liberal government has been desperately looking for a way out of the mess Justin Trudeau created...
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Liberal’s fighter jet capability gap becomes a credibility gap, says...
Conservative Party defence critic James Bezan submitted this opinion piece on the Liberal government’s decision to purchase Super Hornet fighter jets as an interim measure to deal with what they say is...
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Can Donald Trump cancel the F-35 program?
President-elect Donald Trump has shaken up the defence industry with his tweets and threats to cancel expensive programs. He recently tweeted that if Boeing doesn’t get the costs under control for the...
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Trump meets with Lockheed Martin CEO and generals to discuss reducing F-35 costs
President-elect Donald Trump held a meeting with top U.S. military officers and Lockheed Martin representatives on Wednesday. The discussion centered around “trying to bring costs down,” Trump said....
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Trump says F-35 is too expensive, asks Boeing for Super Hornet cost details
President-elect Donald Trump continues to turn the heat up on Lockheed Martin and its F-35 stealth fighter. Trump is now suggesting that his administration may sideline the F-35 in favor of buying more...
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F-35 the “poster child for acquisition malpractice” says McCain in response...
U.S. Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain unloaded on the F-35 on Tuesday after details emerged about another schedule delay and cost overrun for the jet program. “According to a company press...
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Lockheed Martin cancels Ottawa shindig
Lockheed Martin Canada holds an annual “winter reception” for its suppliers and “friends.” This year it was to be held at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa on Feb. 15. It’s one of the most attended...
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