Archive for February, 2010
February 1st, 2010 | 
Author:
The program is to get new leadership and Lockheed Martin is to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars in award fees, but U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates is "not sure" whether the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter can avoid breaching Nunn-McCurdy limits on cost growth.
Posted in 
Amid a deteriorating relationship between Ankara and Jerusalem, the long-delayed sale of Israeli Heron unmanned air vehicles to Turkey is finally getting underway.
While CH-53 helicopters were unloading Marines in the Now Zad valley in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on Dec. 4, history was being made a short distance away. Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft were disgorging Marines from the reconnaissance unit Task Force Raider in three landing zones at the opposite end of the valley, kicking off an assault on the Now Zad area to eliminate Taliban influence.
Russia has begun flying a stealthy fifth-generation fighter to rival the U.S. F-22, but Western analysts question whether Sukhoi can develop and deliver the aircraft by 2015 as promised.
Electronic and computer attack -- the futuristic segment of the Pentagon's arsenal -- will benefit from the proposed 2011 military spending plan, but identifying all the key pieces is difficult without close scrutiny.