MOSCOW - The Sukhoi Su-57 is better than its American counterparts, link Russian Maj. General Vladimir Popov stated on Saturday. According to the veteran military pilot, the F-22 is too expensive and needs numerous improvements, while the F-35 is overloaded with sophisticated technologies that make ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pentagon signed a $34 billion agreement with planemaker Lockheed Martin on Tuesday to procure 478 more F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft for both the US and foreign militaries. An infamously expensive program, some of the F-35s will be bought at the cheapest prices yet reached, ...

MOSCOW - Dutch government announced it would be buying nine of the jets in a €1 billion ($1.09 billion) deal with manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Defense News link reported. That’s $121.1 million per aircraft, a hefty step toward the NATO ally spending 2% of its GDP on defense, as demanded of ...

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will develop its own fighter jets after the United States removed Ankara from the F-35 program over its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense system. Erdogan made the remarks at the commissioning of the fourth ship of the MILGEM project, a ...

WASHINGTON – US Air Force makes a key achievement over Stealth F 35 fighter jets integration with the missile defence system. The US Missile Defense Agency and the Air Force successfully connected an F-35 fighter jet with a U-2 spy plane through the multi-domain ground station, Lockheed Martin ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. has approved the sale of thirty-two F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets to Poland of 6.5 billion dollars. Poland has been steadily increasing its defense spending following Russia's military incursion into Ukraine.

WASHINGTON - The US Department of State has signed off on the sale of 32 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets to Poland in a deal valued at $6.5 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a press release on Wednesday. "Poland has requested to buy thirty-two (32) F-35 Joint Strike ...

ISLAMABAD - The US military’s fleet of F-35 stealth aircraft will miss the 80-percent readiness goal set by former Defense Secretary James Mattis for 2019, a new report has revealed. Acting Pentagon chief Mark Esper, Trump’s nominee to replace Mattis, told a Senate hearing recently that ...

ISLAMABAD - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said it would be robbery for the United States to deny Turkey the F-35 fighter jets it has bought. He said Turkey had so far paid 1.4 billion for the F-35s and that four jets out of 116 had been handed over. Meanwhile, US government said ...

WASHINGTON - Russia's muscle-flexing and the rise of Chinese military power in the last few years have pushed the United States of America to not only develop new weapons but also sharpen its war-waging capabilities. In keeping with its strategic aim to be the dominant military power in ...