July 2013
Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the center fuselage for Italy’s first F-35 Lighting II to the newly commissioned Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility at Italy’s Cameri Air Base July 12. This on-time delivery to Lockheed Martin enables the first assembly of an F-35 aircraft at the FACO facility and increases international participation on the F-35 program. The center fuselage, AL-1, will be integrated into a conventional takeoff and landing ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
Sukhoi Su-30SM multirole fighter jets will be delivered to the Russian Air Force as fully equipped squadrons, rather than “piecemeal,” deputy commander Colonel Sergei Kobylash said Thursday. The Su-30SM is the latest development of the twin-seat Su-30 jet fighter family, a derivative of the long-serving single-seat Sukhoi Su-27, one of the air force’s most important warplanes. The new aircraft has better radar and communications capabilities, an improved friend-or-foe system, a new ejection seat ...
Category: Russian Aviation
