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Lightning Rod: F-35 Fighter Family Capabilities and Controversies

Lightning Rod: F-35 Fighter Family Capabilities and Controversies

Grim Reapers F-35C(click to view full) The $400 billion F-35 Joint Strike fighter program may well be the largest single global defense program in history. This major multinational program is intended to produce an “affordably stealthy” multi-role fighter...
Lightning Rod: F-35 Fighter Family Capabilities and Controversies

The ADVENT of a Better Jet Engine?

PW F119: Power!(click to view full) The Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology (ADVENT) program aims “to develop and demonstrate inlet, engine, exhaust nozzle, and integrated thermal management technologies that enable optimized propulsion system performance over...
Lightning Rod: F-35 Fighter Family Capabilities and Controversies

Korea’s KDX-III AEGIS Destroyers

KDX-III: DDG-991(click to view full) The Korean Destroyer eXperimental (KDX) surface combatant shipbuilding program involves 3 individual classes of ships. The 3 KDX-I Gwanggaeto Great Class ships are called destroyers, but at 3,800 tons, their size and armament more...