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Hypersonic weapons race: Lockheed gets $1 Billion to catch up to Russia and China (Video)

Lockheed Martin, the defense company behind the F-35A Lightning II, won a $928 million contract to develop a hypersonic missile for the US Air Force that will travel more than five times faster than the speed of sound.
The new weapons will be developed with the aim at overcoming Russian and Chinese missile defense systems.

Pentagon admits that Russian military choppers outperform their American counterparts

Yet another piece of Russian military hardware is proving itself to be of a higher quality than those designed and built by American arms manufacturers.
Increasingly, the Russians are developing military components that far surpass the functionality of American made ones.
The most recent case is that of the Russian Mi-17 helicopter, which is being admitted by Pentagon officials as possessive of greater functional capabilities than the American Black Hawk helicopter.

Russian jet welcomes US spy plane with violent turbulence over the Black Sea

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter plane is reported to have passed extremely close to a US Lockheed P-3C Orion reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea on Monday. The incident, the latest in a series of such flybys reportedly had the Russian fighter jet passing within just five feet of the US plane.