Speaking of F/A-XX, the Navy’s planned 6th generation fighter that will replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, below you’ll find the Navy’s brand new Request for Information on the aircraft. By Brand new, I mean it just dropped on Friday. Whatever jet is selected will hopefully replace the Super Hornets around 2030, said Rear Adm. Donald […]
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Well, it’s Monday. To start things off nice and easy, let’s start with this video of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter refueling from a KC-135 at night for the first time. Welcome back to work, everyone. Click through the jump for the video.
Want to see something cool? Watch the video below. As a tipster wrote us, “Your pic of Zumwalt being built is nice, but I have better.” We couldn’t agree more. The video below shows one of the USS Zuwalt’s massive hull sections leaving the Ultra Hall at Bath Iron Works in Maine and being fitted […]
Happy Friday! Let’s celebrate this beautiful indian summer week with a photo of the very last F-22 Raptor ever built as it took to the skies for the first time. Yup, tail number 4195 made its first flight on Wednesday three months after coming off Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Ga., assembly line in December. The Raptor […]
Here’s some (relatively) new eye candy from BAE Systems who posted the a bunch of renderings of its bid for the Army’s new Ground Combat Vehicle program on Flickr recently. The vehicle looks and sounds an awful lot like the trac that BAE offered in the last go-round to replace the M2 Bradley infantry fighting […]
