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U.S. military and industry officials believe that once the J-31 enters service, it will likely be more than a match for existing fourth-generation fighters like the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. They suggest that the capability of the J-31 against the newest fighters, such as the U.S. F-22 and F-35, would depend ...
Multiservice tactical brevity code. March 2023 edition cover page of the Multi-Service Brevity Codes. Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words.
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman, investor and television presenter.He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.
Eurofighter Typhoon variants. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter [ 5 ] and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project ...
On 7 July 2006, the U.S. Air Force, the lead service for the aircraft, officially announced the name of the F-35: Lightning II, in honor of Lockheed's World War II-era twin-propeller Lockheed P-38 Lightning for the United States Army Air Forces and the Cold War-era jet, the English Electric Lightning for the Royal Air Force. [22] [a]
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
The two Chengdu J-20s making their first public appearance at Airshow China 2016. The J-20 emerged from the late-1990s J-XX program. In 2008, the PLAAF endorsed Chengdu Aerospace Corporation 's proposal, Project 718. Chengdu had previously used the double-canard configuration in the J-9, its first design and cancelled in the 1970s, and the J-10 ...
Kid Gleason, player, manager for Chicago White Sox 1912-23 (born in New Jersey) Roy Gleason, outfielder, 1-for-1 in only MLB at-bat; Otis F. Glenn, lawyer, U.S. Senator 1928–33; Caroline Glick, journalist, deputy managing editor of Jerusalem Post; Joseph Glidden, patented barbed wire (born in New York) Gina Glocksen, two-time American Idol ...