The HMS Queen Elizabeth, the biggest ship ever built for the British navy, sailed into its homeport for the first time Wednesday as tens of thousands jammed the harbor to welcome it. The £3 billion ($3.9 billion) ship arrived at Portsmouth Naval Base in southern ...
Britain's new and only aircraft carrier — the largest and most powerful ship ever built for the Royal Navy — set off for its first sea trial in Scotland on Monday. HMS Queen Elizabeth, a 280-meter (919-foot), 65,000-ton vessel, left the dock at the port ...
Lockheed Martin Corp. is in the final stages of negotiating a deal worth more than $37 billion to sell a record 440 F-35 fighter jets to a group of 11 nations, including the United States, two people familiar with the talks said. This would be ...
The first F-35A stealth fighter assembled in Japan was unveiled Monday at a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries factory in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture. The Air Self-Defense Force plans to deploy the cutting-edge fighter this fiscal 2017 year, which ends next March 31, at the Misawa Air Base ...
President Donald Trump said Saturday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe personally thanked him for negotiating a price reduction with Lockheed Martin on the F-35A fighter jets Japan ordered. Speaking at a rally in Melbourne, Florida, Trump said, "Prime Minister Abe was great, great guy. When ...
Tokyo has secured cost cuts on support equipment for its next batch of six U.S. F-35 stealth fighter aircraft of around $100 million, according to sources and Japanese budget papers, on top of savings being finalized for all buyers of the high-tech jets. The deal ...
A pair of F-35 fighter jets arrived at a U.S. Marine base in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Wednesday, marking the first deployment of the stealth aircraft outside the United States and reflecting the country's policy of focusing on Asia. The move is expected to increase the ...
The U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday it has sent a squadron of F-35B fighters to Japan, marking the first operational overseas deployment for the controversial jet that is facing scrutiny from President-elect Donald Trump. The planes' deployment to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi ...
President-elect Donald Trump upended years of Pentagon procurement planning with a tweet on Thursday, announcing he had asked Boeing Co. to price an upgrade of its F-18 Super Hornet jet that could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapon system ever. "Based ...
Donald Trump on Monday widened his attack on defense contractors, slamming Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jet program as too expensive as aides to the president-elect said he intends to keep pushing to cut the costs of military hardware. Trump's latest Twitter broadside sent defense ...
The central government has informed the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture that 16 F-35 fighters will be deployed at the U.S. military base in the first half of next year. It will reportedly be the first overseas deployment of the F-35. High-ranking officials from the ...
The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday declared an initial squadron of Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35A fighter jets ready for combat, marking a major milestone for a program that has faced cost overruns and delays. The move is another achievement for the $379 billion program, the ...
