Painting a Rosy Picture of a Costly Fighter Jet
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Lockheed Martinâs $600 billion Joint Strike Fighter program is only now moving off the drawing board and into first flight.
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By Chris Woodyard  Booming demand for new jetliners is driving up the cost of carbon fiber, a high-tech material used in products ranging from cars to hockey sticks.
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The cost of a program to build high-profile unmanned surveillance aircraft, known as Global Hawks, has increased by nearly $900 million since 2001, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.-Renae Merle
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The Pentagon plans sharp cuts in the Air Force's program for the F/A-22, the most expensive fighter jet in history.
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If aerial dogfights were still part of warfare, the F-22 would give the U.S. an edge. But today, they are the stuff of video games
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For thousands of workers in Georgia, Texas and California, the question of what aircraft Japan chooses to replace its aging fighter jet fleet could mean their jobs.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 9--An Air Force contract worth $627.8 million should generate local  high-tech jobs and shows what was at stake in last year's military  base-closing process, a Dayton Development Coalition executive said Friday.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.  LMT.N has  received two U.S. Air Force contracts totaling $716 million to  continue work on its F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet, designed to be  the world's most capable, amid reports the $72 billion program  may be scaled back sharply, the company said Friday.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. 's F-35  Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, funded by the United States and  eight other countries, could cost as much as an extra $12  million to $16 million apiece at first if production plans are  curtailed in early years, the general running the project said  Friday.
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MOJAVE, Calif.--As the sun cracked the ragged horizon of the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, the White Knight aircraft taxied onto the runway looking like a gigantic model glider with an oversize torpedo latched to its belly.
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Active-duty U.S. Air Force members interested in learning to fly might be able to defray a fraction of that cost by applying for tuition assistance.
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Blog: BMW design firm hired to glamorize Boeing's jets releases first concept drawings.
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Blog: How easy is it to get a missile-zapping aircraft off the ground? It depends on how much Congress is willing to pay.
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If you want to help friends in high places, a Gulfstream jet at the ready is a handy thing.
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the costliest weapons procurement project ever, is set to make its maiden test flight next week, a U.S. general running the project said on Tuesday.
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Burn baby burn Rayguns are, um, on fire lately, with the US Army dishing out early contracts in its monster truck laser cannon race, Boeing planning a rather unimpressive blaster-equipped Humvee and the famous American nuke-toasting jumbo jet continuing to make headlines. Now the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon war-nerd bureau which loves nothing better than a long shot, has joined in.â¦
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Contract for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft likely to be much higher than published sum.