Eurofighter Typhoon News

Up close, the Eurofighter Typhoon is an exotic, beautiful machine that seems seamless, as if carved from a single block of a light, grey material.

The UK will be able to meet its military spending priorities for the next 10 years without having to make additional cuts to its personnel or equipment profiles, defence secretary Philip Hammond announced on 14 May.

A Boeing F-18 Super Hornet performs during its demonstration flight, on the first day of the 47th Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, June 18, 2007.

TOP JET A Hawk trainer, which has been exported around the world. Any deal would give work to the Samlesbury plant DEFENCE giant BAE Systems is in talks with Saudia Arabia over a deal which could see up to 30 Hawk trainer aircraft being made at its factory in Samlesbury, it has been revealed.

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Japan will pay an estimated $10 billion for its order of 42 F-35 stealth jets at a cost of roughly $240 million per plane, the U.S. Defense Department reported to Congress, revealing price projections for the first time.

WOT LARKS! Missile batteries on Blackheath where once the footpads and cut-throats lay in wait.

One employee told the BAE board: 'You have not performed and you are getting pay rises.

The USA has assessed the proposed sale of 42 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter aircraft to Japan at $10 billion.

British defence group BAE Systems said it was still in talks with Saudi Arabia to finalise the terms of a key fighter jet contract and reiterated its caution for the coming year given government cutbacks.

A plan for US troop relocation had been agreed in a 2006 US-Japan Roadmap for Realignment Implementation, but it had yet to be implemented and repeated delays have threatened to poison the USJapanese strategic relationship.

The defence ministry has cleared the sale of 10 per cent equity in state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd , in order to infuse funds for the much-needed upgrade of the military aircraft manufacturer's capabilities .

Eurofighter, a consortium of German, Italian, Spanish and UK defence firms, has not yet abandoned all hope of stealing the order away from Dassault.