Sentence examples for existing fighters from inspiring English sources

Missiles are regarded as substitutes for very-high-cost aircraft, and the industry is a major source of new weapons to upgrade the capability of existing fighters.

Although the Pentagon has contracted for existing fighters as well as the next generation of the plane, company officials say it's always a fight in Washington come budget time.

Its development was quite prolonged, although successful, but by the time it finished its manufacturer's trials in early 1944 there was no need for a high-altitude fighter and it was not worth reducing the production of existing fighters to convert a factory over to the I-211.

"If India's requirements are beyond any existing fighters, we are prepared to make upgraded F-16's to India's specifications with complete transfer of technology," Mike Kelly, a Lockheed senior executive said in an interview last month with the Press Trust of India, a New Delhi news agency.

It has allowed not only for successes against the Islamic State but has also mostly avoided any American troop casualties, since it has relied on airstrikes and advising existing fighters on the ground rather than sending in American frontline ground troops.

The EA-18, a variant of an existing fighter-bomber, would have improved surveillance and jamming capabilities.

The rationale for the retirement of existing fighter aircraft and an operational analysis of the portfolio of capabilities of the Air Force that demonstrates performance of the designated mission at an equal or greater level of effectiveness as the retiring aircraft.

"In Guilty Gear Isuka we want to satisfy existing fighter fans with new content and never-before-seen innovations.

Transforming existing fighter jets into drones is becoming an increasingly economical option in light of dwindling military budgets and the fact that the troubled next generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is running hundreds of billions of dollars over budget and nearly a decade behind schedule.

Then again, neither did the Fighters' existing mark -- "mark" being industryspeak for logo.

Finally and most important, before suggesting that we renew production of the F-15 and F-16 or move forward on the F-22, or any new fighter, it would be wise to reassess the threats facing our existing fleet of fighter jets, including those of our large and modernizing Navy, before committing to their wholesale replacement.