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How Exporting US Aircraft To Foreign Countries Helps Finance Next-Gen Jets

Aircraft exports provide crucial support for defense contractors.

Overweight, over budget, and late, the A-12 Avenger II collapsed along with the Soviet Union.

The B-21 Raider might be able to fit at least some of NGAD’s role as a penetrating command center controlling advanced drones.

Some air forces are weak because they don’t really have any aircraft, while others are weak because they are ineffective or obsolete.

The Growler entered US Navy service in 2009.

In a war over Taiwan, most US and Japanese F-35s lost will likely be destroyed on the ground by missiles.

Martin Baker has long supplied the Western fighter jet ejection seats and continues to export them from the US to South Korea.

All service branches struggle to meet fighter jet readiness targets, and the issues are manifold and complicated.

Before 1962, the Phantom was known by two different names but a change in naming conventions saw it designated the F-4.

The technologically advanced aircraft cost hundreds of millions to manufacture.
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