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China showed off its new stealth aircraft, including the fifth-gen J-35A.The J-35A was described as featuring stealth, informationization, and networking capabilities.China’s reveal indicates its ambitions as it works to modernize its military. China just debuted its newest fifth-generation stealth aircraft, which appears to be its answer to the American F-35.The…
By Gerry Doyle SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s much-anticipated J-35A stealth aircraft, centrepiece of this week’s Zhuhai air show, has been more than a decade in the making, but experts say little is known about its capabilities. The first public appearance of the land-based J-35A will take place on Tuesday, a…
The US Marine Corps conducted its fourth test of its new experimental unmanned combat aerial vehicle.The XQ-58A Valkyrie sensed and transmitted target data for a force of F-35 stealth fighters.The test pushed the manned-unmanned teaming concept “a step further” for the entire joint force, an official said. The US Marines…
F-35 stealth fighter jets have been failing to meet mission-capable rates, a watchdog reports.This has been the case for six years despite over $12 billion on operations and maintenance, the GAO found.A defense official said the program and DoD must continue working to improve combat readiness. The US military’s F-35…
Parag Agrawal updated his LinkedIn page with his AI startup’s name for the first time: Parallel Web Systems.The ex-Twitter CEO raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January.Parallel’s website says its initial product is “an API for AIs using web data.” The former CEO of Twitter…
Egypt’s military still desperately wants a world-class fighter jet.With the deal it sought to acquire 20 F-35 stealth fighters from the US on ice, Egyptian officials reportedly discussed buying fourth- and even fifth-generation fighter jets from China. It could be a sign that Cairo, a top recipient of American military…
Britain’s defense ministry is building a massive experimental facility to better understand how it can protect military aircraft against GPS jamming and other threats as the war in Ukraine shows the danger of electronic warfare.The new defense testing facility — expected to be one of the largest in Europe and…
Lockheed Martin has released new details about the air-launched hypersonic Mako missile, which promises to be the first hypersonic weapon in the world that can be launched from the internal weapons bay of not just the F-35, but the F-22 Raptor as well.This new missile has been under development for…
A US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber used a new anti-ship munition to sink a decommissioned warship during a series of recent live-fire drills with partner forces in the Pacific Ocean, the US Navy said this week.The US military earlier this month held two sinking exercises, known as SINKEXs,…
The loss of a B-2 Spirit bomber due to fire and its subsequent retirement highlights the fragility of the US Air Force’s bomber fleet.With only 19 B-2s remaining and several other bombers aging or facing retirements, America’s strategic bomber capacity is significantly reduced.The B-21 Raider offers hope, but budget cuts…
