By Jalea Brooks April 25, 2017 You may have noticed them around town – The Montgomery area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring billboards across the city to raise awareness of the effort to get the F-35 to locate here. Leaders of the F-35 Task Force say it’s important that the community be aware Montgomery is […]
By Brad Lendon May 12, 2017 US President Donald Trump thinks the F-35 fighter is “pretty cool,” but he seems to be a bit confused over what the newest US warplanes have been up to in Japan. In a White House interview with Time magazine published Thursday, Trump said almost three dozen of the stealth […]
By John Walters Mar. 22,2017 On his way out of the St. Johnsbury Academy gymnasium last Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stopped in the hallway and faced the media. For all of two minutes. He answered three short questions and hustled on to his next engagement. Little did I know that this would be my […]
By Craig Whitlock and Bob Woodward December 5, 2016 The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post. Pentagon leaders had […]
By Stephanie Levitz June 13th, 2016 Buying a fighter jet that’s different from the one used by Canada’s closest allies risks disconnecting the country from the global alliances it needs the most, a former Conservative defence minister said Monday. Peter MacKay told a Senate committee that in his mind, there’s no question the Lockheed-Martin F-35 […]
BY MORGAN TRUE DEC. 10, 2015 City officials, the Vermont Air National Guard and the Burlington International Airport are making progress toward a joint noise mitigation commission that would include representatives from other affected communities. Newly released noise exposure maps show more than 2,200 people fall into the area negatively impacted by excessive noise from […]
By Peter Levring Denmark’s government plans to replace its aging fleet of fighter jets with Lockheed Martin planes in an order worth 20 billion kroner ($3 billion). The minority government of Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, which still needs parliamentary approval before the order can be placed, wants to spend the money on 27 F-35 jets […]
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER MAY 12, 2016 In the southwest corner of a mile-long assembly plant here, an F-16 fighter jet is slowly coming to life. That plane, being built for the Iraqi Air Force, is far more sophisticated than the first Falcon to come off this production line more than 40 years ago, but it […]
By Dave Philipps June 19, 2016 It was one of the biggest nuclear accidents in history, and the United States wanted it cleaned up quickly and quietly. But if the men getting onto buses were told anything about the Air Force’s plan for them to clean up spilled radioactive material, it was usually, “Don’t worry.” […]
By Patrick Tucker April 17, 2016 Pentagon officials say the plane can fly without the aircraft’s enormously complex diagnostics system. Problems with the Joint Strike Fighter’s logistics software will not keep the F-35 fleet from flying, the Pentagon says, contrary to a new Government Accountability Office, or GAO, report that hinted at a possible grounding. In […]