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National Defense
March 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Pilot Stress, Aging Equipment Cause Angst at D.C. Air Guard Defending the nation's capital from an aerial attack might seem a good enough reason to give a wing commander whatever he needs. But it has not worked out that way for the aviators of the District of Columbia Air National Guard.   |
National Defense
September 2011
Grace V. Jean |
National Guard Chief Frets About Aging Aircraft The District of Columbia Air National Guard's 113th Wing has dispatched its jet fighters more than 3,000 times since 9/11 to intercept aircraft that have strayed into the national capital region's restricted airspace. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Questions for a Real F-35 Test Pilot Test pilot Jon Beesley has ridden in history's cockpit. Having flown in the development phase of every operational U.S. stealth aircraft. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
National Defense
November 2013
Dan Parsons |
Joint Strike Fighter Total Cost Still Up in the Air The Air Force general in charge of bailing out development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is in agreement with Lockheed Martin that the mistakes of the past are behind them and the first operational jets will be available on time and on budget in 2015. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2010
Rich Smith |
Israel Leads the Way The nation lights a path to profits for Lockheed Martin. |
Wired
July 2001
Carl Hoffman |
The X Wars Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines -- if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon... |
Popular Mechanics
May 2002
Jim Wilson |
Flexible Flier The Joint Strike Fighter puts the best of every 20th century warplane into one nimble and stealthy package... |
National Defense
January 2015
Valerie Insinna |
Important Tests Loom for Navy and Marine Corps F-35 The Navy and Marine Corps variants of the joint strike fighter have an eventful year ahead, and program officials are saddled with a long list of work to do before major milestones in the summer. |
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2006
Eamon Javers |
Stealth Spending At The Pentagon How the Air Force is keeping the costs of expensive new fighter jets under the radar. |
National Defense
July 2008
Grace V. Jean |
F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016 Inside a manufacturing facility so large that workers routinely bike and ride golf carts down paths named after fighter jets, preparations are underway to begin mass production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. |
Popular Mechanics
February 3, 2005 |
9/11: Debunking The Myths We examine the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11. |
Defense Update
July 2008 |
5th Generation Fighter Dominated by the US - at Farnborough 2008 After years of progress, the F-35 Lightning II supersonic, multi-role, 5th generation stealth fighter program is accelerating the pace against other competitors |
National Defense
September 2014
Dan Parsons |
Fifth-Generation Fighters Will Determine Air Dominance in Future Conflicts The Raptor is the only combat-ready fifth-generation fighter in the world. Its thrust-vectoring engines, sensor fusion technology and stealth are what define it as a generational leap from previous fighter designs. |
National Defense
September 2013
Dan Parsons |
Prime Contractors Chasing Big Business Retooling Old Fighters For the United States and its allies, the F-16 has proven time and again to be the perfect all-around, multi-mission fighter aircraft, and with ongoing delays in developing a revolutionary new plane, air forces are preparing to keep it flying for decades to come. |
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing Needing a boost after a negative report leak, Lockheed Martin tested a prototype of its latest Joint Strike Fighter for the Marines today -- a supersonic F-35 that lands like a chopper and thinks like a pilot. |
Popular Mechanics
April 1, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Inside the War Games for U.S. Air Force Fighter Pilots This week, warplanes from the Air National Guard 174th Fighter Wing will be flying training missions over the desert outside Nellis Air Force Base, trying desperately to compete during simulated combat over the high Nevada desert. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2009
Rich Smith |
USAF Rolls Over. Will Lockheed Play Dead? Defense Secretary Gates wielded the budget axe against Lockheed's Raptor fighter jets, but the F-22's final dogfight will play out in Congress. |
National Defense
December 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Digital Designs and Virtual Tests Continue To Be Subject of Debate To speed up deliveries and cut costs, the U.S. military's newest jet fighter will undergo much of its testing in digital simulations. |
National Defense
June 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Training For War: A Multimedia Experience Just as training technologies for the newest fighter jets are going digital, so are those for one of the Air Force's oldest airplanes, the C-130 Hercules. |
Popular Mechanics
January 25, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
The Big Money Behind Europe's U.S. Warplane Trash-Talk Eurofighter's Typhoon is considered a leading contender in a $10.4 billion contract to sell 126 warplanes to India. |
National Defense
September 2014
Valerie Insinna |
As F-35 Ramps Up, Legacy Fighters Face Existential Threat After 2018, the F-35 is likely to capture over a 50 percent share of the global fighter jet market, says Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst for the Teal Group, in a February report. |
National Defense
July 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Air Force Seeks to Upgrade Close Air Support Fleet As the Iraqi and Afghan conflicts evolve essentially into ground wars the Air Force is moving to improve its ability to provide close air support, according to the service's top officials. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
Rich Smith |
Boeing Bags a Big 1, and Lockheed Does, Too Both contractors finished off 2011 with a bang. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jeff Wise |
The Tech That Makes New Airplanes and Runways Safer The plane, the runway, the airport, the technology are all examined here |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2011
Abantika Chatterjee |
Lockheed's Japan Contract Bonanza A $4 billion contract to supply 40 fighter jets to Japan should make investors salivate. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2009 |
Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples. |
National Defense
September 2014
Dan Parsons |
F-35 Looks to Move Past Recent Setbacks Recent months have been particularly inauspicious for the most expensive weapon system development program in U.S. history. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2008
Rich Smith |
Raptors and Lightnings and F-16s. Oh, My! How will the Pentagon deal with a cash-strapped economy? How should you? |
National Defense
February 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Upgrades Will Keep F-15's, F-16's In Combat for Two More Decades The Defense Department and the fighters' overseas customers have a long list of upgrades in the works. |
Defense Update
July 2008 |
Raptor Displays Super Aerodynamics at Farnborough 2008 In a breathtaking demonstration of aerodynamics and power, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air dominance fighter claimed an uncontested position as a 'superfighter'. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Raptor Under Attack The Pentagon is considering scaling back Lockheed Martin's F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet program. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2010
Rich Smith |
Boeing Saves the Week While Boeing shares' 6% tumble may suggest otherwise, this was actually a pretty good week for the defense stalwart. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Lockheed's Weight Problem Lockheed Martin will delay takeoff on its Joint Strike Fighter program due to a nagging problem that may leave the defense contractor's investors jittery. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Lockheed's Embattled Fighter? The F-35's toughest enemies might be a key ally and the growing capability of unmanned systems. |
National Defense
December 2015
Stew Magnuson |
F-35 Program Ramps Up Training for Pilots, Technicians The F-35 joint strike fighter program is transitioning to a day when its pilots will come fresh out of flight school and the new jet fighter will be their first assignment. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2009
Rich Smith |
Stop Talking, Boeing Ever since losing twin competitions to build the Pentagon's fifth-generation fighters, the F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor, to Lockheed Martin, Boeing's been nursing hurt feelings by dissing the competition. |
AskMen.com
Dennis Ryan |
The Life Of A Test Pilot Find out what it's like trying to break airplanes for a living. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2008
J.R. Wilson |
Avionics Enter the 5th Generation Advanced military aircraft such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 air-superiority jet fighter and the E-2D Hawkeye carrier-based maritime patrol and radar surveillance aircraft, will have powerful avionics systems like never seen before. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Danger! Budget Cuts Ahead! Congress takes an ax to defense projects. Who stands to lose their heads? |
National Defense
July 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Eglin Prepares to Open F-35 Training Center Lockheed Martin Corp. is building a high-tech training center at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., which will be used by all F-35 pilots and maintainers. |
National Defense
February 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Fighters' Foreign Customers Add to Mix While it's well known that foreign buyers of the F-15 and F-16 jet fighters are helping to keep the production lines open, some of these customers are also helping boost the development of the aircraft, according to managers of the two programs. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2010
Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin's 20%-Off Sale Want a cheaper airplane? Lockheed's got you covered. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Rich Smith |
Pentagon Unveils Crystal Ball Defense Secretary Gates says that the military needs to start preparing for "the wars we are most likely to fight -- not just the wars we're best suited to fight." Which companies stand to benefit from this? |
National Defense
July 2011
Eric Beidel |
Multi-Role JSF Simulator Delivered to Air Force Lockheed Martin recently sent the first of a new F-35 simulator to Eglin Air Force Base's 33rd Fighter Wing, which will begin using the system this fall. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin Short-Circuits F-35 orders are getting pushed back an unlucky 13 months to allow for extra testing of the plane. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011 |
Clipped Wings Defense contractors are trying to fend off liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, all looking for savings in the Pentagon's budget. Here are the programs already on the chopping block. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2010
Rich Smith |
Core Stock: Lockheed Martin 60 years, 1 trillion dollars. Can't go wrong. |
