An OV-10D during trials aboard USS Saratoga in 1985
A U.S. Marine Corps North American Rockwell OV-10D+ Bronco observation aircraft as it taxis clear of the landing area onboard aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) during testing flight qualifications off the coast of North Carolina (USA) on 10 September 1985. It was flown by CAPT George Webb, USN, a Navy test pilot flying from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD. He did landing and take-off tests with the OV-10D+ aboard both USS Saratoga as well as USS Nassau (LHA-4).

An OV-10A of VMO-1 operating from USS Nassau, 1983
flight deck crewman uses an MD-3A tow tractor to position a North American Rockwell OV-10A ''Bronco'' (BuNo 155447) of U.S. Marine Corps observation squadron VMO-1 on the port elevator of the U.S. amphibious assault ship ''US Nasau"

Ce drone franco-britannique devra être en mesure d’effectuer des missions de renseignement et de surveillance ainsi que d’identifier des cibles et des frappes. Il sera complémentaire des avions de combat « classiques ». Par exemple, il pourrait être préalablement utilisé dans un environnement « non permissif », c’est à dire fortement défendu par des moyens d’interdiction et de déni d’accès (A2/AD).
 
Dans ce domaine, Français et Britanniques ne partent pas de rien. En effet, Dassault Aviation est le maître d’oeuvre du programme nEUROn, un démonstrateur de drone de combat développé dans le cadre d’une coopération européenne. De son côté, BAE Systems a développé le Taranis.
 
Outre BAE Systems et Dassault Aviation, le programme SCAF réunit Rolls Royce, Safran, Thales et Selex ES.

Ahead of Carter's three-day visit to India, US government representatives as well as Boeing and F-16 manufacturer Lockheed Martin have made "detailed presentations" to the Indian establishment on the suitability of establishing an American fighter production line in India. "Both the offers (Boeing and Lockheed Martin) are attractive for the Make in India strategy. No final decision has been taken," said a source.
 
But India may well pitch for the twin-engine F/A-18s over the single-engine F-16s. For one, Boeing is offering "a new-generation production line" to be set up in India. For another, the Navy could also consider the F/A-18s in the years ahead since the multi-role fighters are capable of operating from aircraft carriers.

(CNN)How does an SUV fleeing the police get inside a U.S. Navy base and take out a $60 million top-of-the-line fighter jet?
 
That's the question officials at Naval Station Lemoore outside Fresno, California, are trying to figure out after a Jeep Grand Cherokee racing away from a California Highway Patrol traffic stop got 7 miles inside the Navy installation late Wednesday and crashed into the tail section of an F/A-18 Super Hornet.

"...Senator XENOPHON: I will be very quick; I will try to do it in three minutes or less. I will ask you to put some questions on notice, so you may want to refer to the Hansard.
Mr Goon: Certainly.
Senator XENOPHON: I just want to refer to this chart you have provided in your submission, which I found quite useful.
Mr Goon: The ZOCT table?
Senator XENOPHON: Yes. It is your chart?
Mr Goon: That is our chart.
Senator XENOPHON: That is your chart. On notice—and I emphasise 'on notice' because of time constraints—can you give a definition in layman's terms of what each capability is on the Y axis and why it is important to a fift<script id="gpt-impl-0.8286218248395414" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gpt/pubads_impl_81.js"></script>hghter jet, perhaps weighing each capability in terms of very important, important, of interest or some other weighting method. Can you consider that, please?
Mr Goon: We certainly can.
Senator XENOPHON: I would like a very brief answer in relation to this next question, because I will be putting this to other witnesses. This goes to Senator Fawcett's line of questioning and Senator Gallacher's. How have you established the content of this table? Is it from open-source information?
Mr Goon: It is all open source.
Senator XENOPHON: Others might suggest that this is incorrect on account of it being open source. There are dangers in restricting that because, by definition, if there are other capabilities of other fighter jets we simply will not know about them because you cannot get it from open source. Do you acknowledge that that is a known unknown?
Mr Goon: No, I do not. The reason for that is that the whole intelligence community around the world recognises that open source is the primary source of intelligence.
Senator XENOPHON: But there could be other features of the aircraft that you are trying to compare that you may not know about.
Mr Goon: Certainly, there are some things down to the nitty-gritty detail that you do not know. You do not know the hard numbers, but you do know in terms of the overall capability. Classified information comes under the national security classification system with very clear guidelines as to what is classified and why it is classified. Usually it boils down to numbers and things like that. If people cannot talk about classified information in an unclassified way—
Senator XENOPHON: Because of time constraints I am sorry to interrupt you. I am happy for you to elaborate on this on notice.
Mr Goon: Allow me to put that in an answer to you on notice.
Senator XENOPHON: You are saying that this is robust despite the fact that there are features of the aircraft we may not know about.
Mr Goon: Yes. It is an overview comparing what the other manufacturers are doing with their aircraft.
Senator XENOPHON: Fair enough. That puts it in context. My final question is: you have recommended redirecting Defence down the F22 path, but doesn't the 'Obey' amendment prevent this from occurring without the US senate's involvement?
Mr Goon: The US congress will have to be involved. The real question is: what is America going to do? We have gone down the path and we have lost regional air superiority. America is on the same trajectory because of the JSF. If America loses air superiority there will be a massive change in the balance of global power. I think all of us around this table know the consequences of that.
Senator XENOPHON: That can be rectified with the F22—is that what you are saying?
Mr Goon: By providing ourselves more over the Americans and our allies with the F22 capability. One that will address the referenced threats.
Senator XENOPHON: Sorry about the time constraints, but thank you very much.
CHAIR: So that is your position—the F22 over the Joint Strike Fighter?
Mr Goon: Most definitely. But it does need to be evolved.
Senator WHISH-WILSON: Or the F22 with the Joint Strike Fighter? Or without?
Mr Goon: The joint strike fighter has other problems, and the question has to be: are you going to pay all that money to try and fix those problems?"