Five minutes later, four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters from nearby Luke Air Force Base will conduct a fly-over in the "missing man" formation.
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Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.
Much like the U.S. Air Force F-16 program yielded greater quantity discounts through competition and earning its way into foreign air forces, the Army leveraged a steadily expanding community of Patriot partners to procure systems more economically while continually enhancing system performance and technology.
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The company said that the Department of Defense authorized the purchase of six F-35A aircraft for the Air Force and tentatively approved the purchase of six F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps.
Air Force F-15E fighter jets will launch the new weapon, which would find its target either by a laser or satellite guidance system.
Pentagon sources said the attacks were carried out by an Air Force F-16, which dropped a laser-guided bomb, and a B-1 bomber, which dropped a 2, 000-pound satellite-guided bomb, or JDAM.
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The Lockheed Martin F-35C that the Navy is officially planning to buy is a stealthy, single-engine strike fighter derived from the same technologies as the Air Force F-35A and Marine Corps F-35B.
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Gortney said Saturday no U.S. aircraft were operating over Libya, but recent talk of a no-fly zone over Libya sparked speculation over whether high-end, radar-evading stealth aircraft like the Air Force F-22 Raptor might be employed.
Further, Test and Evaluation officials discovered a handful of cracks on the right wing and right engine of the U.S. Air Force F-35A version, as well as multiple cracks on the bulkhead flange of the Marine short takeoff F-35B version.
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There are many reasons why the Japanese should not want to add the F-22 to its air wings.
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Because officials were concerned about a terrorist attack on the embattled islands, the presidential airplane, Air Force One, was shepherded into Philippine air space by F-15s.
The Navy insists that it supports the plan of record for the Lockheed Martin plane, but it has already restructured the program once and now is studying whether the number of F-35s in carrier air wings should be cut due to cost constraints.
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However, Gates conveniently omitted the fact that he had fired Air Force leaders who opposed termination of the F-22, and that dozens of studies conducted inside and outside the Air Force had found a need for more than the 187 planes he decided to buy (the independent study his office commissioned to make the case for early termination recommended 260 planes, so it was quietly shelved).
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F-22 Raptor, the Air Force's most advanced fighter, whose production line will have to begin shutting down if more jets aren't ordered soon.
The 3D conversion is well done and particularly in the action scenes, as one watches F-14s zooming through the air it enhanced the feeling of speed and depth.
In his recent speeches, Secretary Gates has emphasized the need to modernize the military's various air forces with the F-35, a "stealthy" fifth-generation aircraft that has run into production delays and increased costs.
The problem is--assuming the F-35 sees the light of day in a timely manner--that this aircraft simply doesn't do the job in air-to-air combat that the F-22 does, nor does it have the F22's ability to penetrate sophisticated defenses.
In theory, the Air Force has many hundreds of tactical aircraft like the F-15E fighter-bomber that might be used to prosecute an air campaign in the Western Pacific, but those planes have limited ranges and thus would be heavily dependent on aerial refueling.
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An Israeli F-16 shot the drone with air-to-air missiles, an Israeli military official told CNN.
In direct contravention of their commitment to the US (and the US's commitment to Israel), the Saudis have deployed F-15 fighter jets at Tabuk air base, located 150 km. from Eilat.
When combined with the modernization of the Saudi air force and the extensive F-16 inventory of the United Arab Emirates, it is clear Arab gulf states will be positioned to greatly outmatch the antiquated tactical aircraft fleet of Iran.
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For example, production has been halted on the world's best fighter aircraft, the F-22, well short of abiding Air Force requirements.
The aircraft maintains the air-to-air combat ability of the main F-15 fighter as the pilot can detect and fire at other aircraft.
John Boyd, a great Air Force fighter strategist behind the F-16.
And we hope that the Congress will approve another group of F-16 airplanes to Iraq because our air force was destroyed completely during the war that Iraq entered into.
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The New York Times has reported that a major Israeli air exercise involving more than 100 F-15 and F-16 aircraft took place in early June and was apparently designed to develop long-range bombing techniques.
For the PLA, anti-missile systems, Aegis-class guided-missile cruisers, near-top-of-the-line F-16s fitted out with the latest air-to-air missiles, "over-the-horizon" long-range radar - all of this equipment is either in Taiwan, on its way or "under consideration" - are threats that can be coped with militarily.
The Houthis, as the rebels are known after the name of a leading clan in the remote and spectacularly rugged region, have survived the repeated assaults not just of Yemen's own modern army but also, in the latest campaign, heavy bombardment by the Saudi air force's Tornadoes and F-15 fighter aircraft.
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