Air Force to scrap Northrop high-altitude surveillance drone program bi2730902 The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap Northrop Grumman Corp. high-altitude unmanned surveillance plane program and instead extend the life of U-2 the 2020s, according to a government official and a defense analyst

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Air Force to scrap Northrop high-altitude surveillance drone program bi2730902 The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap Northrop Grumman Corp. high-altitude unmanned surveillance plane program and instead extend the life of U-2 the 2020s, according to a government official and a defense analyst

Afghan Air Force Learns to Fly _ and Fix Aircraft bi2730902 NATO trains Afghan air force to fly _ and fix them so history doesn't repeat itself..

Exclusive: U.S. Air Force terminating Northrop unmanned plane bi2730902 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap Northrop Grumman Corp high-altitude unmanned surveillance plane program and instead extend the life of U-2 the 2020s, according to a government official and a defense analyst. Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, said the Air Force decision was based on the cost of ..

FACTBOX - Pentagon budget plan hits ships and planes bi2730902 REUTERS - The U.S. Defense Department outlined fiscal 2013 budget cuts that would slow warship building, scrap 10 percent of fighter-jet squadrons and cut nearly 100,000 ground troops the coming year. Among the programs that would be slowed, reduced or ended the plans are approved by the U.S. Congress: - Purchases of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter would be slowed to give more ..

New jet fighters can't land on carriers bi2730902 LONDON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- British Royal Navy officials said the inability of new Joint Strike Fighter jets to land on carriers could scrap the $7.6 billion fighter program

China's 65,000-Ton Secret bi2730902 Warship? Never! The two-decade voyage of the Varyag?from Russian castoff to Macau pleasure palace to China's first carrier..

Bid for Ark Royal dive site boosted bi2730902 The Royal Navy's former flagship, the carrier HMS Ark Royal, could be moving closer to ending her days as a wreck for divers after the campaign behind the plan received millions of pounds of financial backing

Pentagon budget: top 3 winners and losers bi2730902 As the Pentagon rolled out budget preview Thursday, stressed the tough work involved cutting $487 billion over the next decade. But Pentagon parlance, the word ?cut? a relative term. While the Defense Department ?s base budget initially decreases from $553 billion year to $525 billion fiscal year 2013 ? more than $480 billion base budget 2008, when US troops were ..

HMS Ark Royal should be sunk and turned diving reef, says former captain bi2730902 A FORMER captain of the Royal Navy carrier HMS Ark Royal has backed a project to have the ex-flagship sunk as a diving reef

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