Pentagon backs new F-35 repair depots in Europe and Asia
Three countries have taken a real step toward keeping their new stealth fighters flying without shipping them back to Texas every time something breaks, and the Pentagon just handed Lockheed Martin $23 million to make it happen. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Fort Worth, Texas defense giant that builds [β¦]
Two European defense ministers who normally answer only to the citizens of neutral countries walked through a Zurich weapons factory together this week, and what they saw helps explain why a small Swiss suburb has quietly become one of the most important addresses in Europeβs air defense industry. Switzerlandβs Federal Councillor Martin Pfister and Austriaβs [β¦]