Saturday, December 31, 2011

F-15s to be Sold To Saudi Arabia + A Little Something About the F-35

The US has sealed a deal of $30 billion to sell 84 F-15s to Saudi Arabia, and upgrade 70 more. Boeing is making the F-15s, and is saying that this will not only open up more jobs in the US, but also in Saudi Arabia.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203899504577128674022827702.html
A F-15









Japan has decided that it will replace it's older F-4s with new F-35 Lightning IIs.
http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/933/?SID=76839e08c242a35214ca8cdd71fe5812
A Japanese F-4
A F-35 Lightning II










I am sorry, but this will be my last post about the news, but if you want to me to continue, please comment about it.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Good Bye F-22s, We'll Miss You

The final F-22 Raptor rolled off the production line on December 13th. The tail number is 4195, and it is the 187th Raptor. The F-22 was conceived at the end of the Cold War as an air superiority fighter, that included stealth. The F-35 is going to replace it, as it will almost all other fighters including the F-16, F-18, and other fighters.









Here is a video of the final F-22 by Lockheed Martin: