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  1. F-35 costs jump in latest production lots

    WASHINGTON — The cost of all three variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are increasing by as…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AirForce #Europe #F-35 #F-35JointStrikeFighter #JointProgramOffice #LockheedMartin #marinecorps #navy #NorthropGrumman #Pentagon #PrattandWhitney #RTX #World
    newsbeep.com/719734/

  2. Ukraine asks EU to fund first Patriot missiles buy

    KYIV, Ukraine — The European Union is reviewing Kyiv’s request to spend billions of euros on PAC-3 interceptor…
    #Europe #EU #Brussels #circulated-defense-news #circulated-military-times #dn-dnr #EuropeanUnion #interceptormissiles #Kyiv #LockheedMartin #MarkRutte #military-times #NATO #PAC-3 #Patriot #Russia #Ukraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
    europesays.com/europe/131126/

  3. “Paper arsenal: Why the West's defense industry can't deliver”

    via @geopolitics_prime on Telegram

    @uk_politics

    “Western defense behemoths are touting bloated order books and multi-year backlogs of revenue.

    Lockheed Martin closed 2025 with a record backlog of $194 billion — roughly 2.5 times its annual sales. Rheinmetall's order backlog hit roughly $72.89 billion, with BAE Systems and RTX similarly cashing in big.

    Yet there is a glaring disconnect between the signatures on contracts and reality, notes independent defense and security analyst Patricia Marins on Substack.

    Multi-year delays have become the norm, exposing profound structural weaknesses in the hollowed-out, bureaucratic Western defense industries, stuck as they are in an oligopoly trap”

    Read more here: t.me/geopolitics_prime/72006

    #Press #SocialMedia #West #Military #Industry #Capacity #LockheedMartin #Rheinmetall #Delays #SupplyChains #RareEarths #China

  4. Lockheed Martin Congratulates the Polish Air Force..

    WARSAW, Poland, June 12, 2026 — The Republic of Poland celebrated today the in-country arrival of its first…
    #Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #F-35LightningII #Husarz #LockheedMartin #PolandF-35 #PolandfirstF-35 #Polandin-countryarrival #polisharmedforces #PolishF-35AHusarzaircraft #Polishmilitary #TheRepublicofPoland
    europesays.com/poland/11584/

  5. Friday, June 12, 2026

    Russian petrochemical plants reportedly struck by Ukrainian drones hundreds of kilometers from front line ..... Ukraine confirms strike on Crimea's Armiansk bridge that hit 50 Russian military vehicles ..... Ukraine aims to isolate Crimea from Russia ..... Russia's oil output falls to one-year low amid Ukrainian strikes ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  6. NASA’s X-59 Completes First Taxi Test.
    NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet aced its first runway test, moving closer to quiet, faster-than-sound civilian flights. Designed to swap sonic booms for soft "thumps," it's set to fly by late 2025.

    #NASA #X59 #SupersonicFlight #QuietBoom #AviationInnovation #LockheedMartin #FutureOfFlight #JAXA #TECHi

    Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/nasa-x59-quiet-super

  7. The US government is taking a serious step toward #space-based #nuclear ropulsion
    #NASA and #DARPA announced they had selected #LockheedMartin to serve as the primary contractor to assemble the experimental #nuclear thermal reactor vehicle (#XNTRV) and its engine. #BWXTechnologies will be one of Lockheed Martin’s partners, and it will develop the #nuclearreactor and fabricate the high-assay low-enriched #uranium fuel to power the reactor.
    arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/