Greece To Buy 30 F-16 Fighter Jets From U.S.

Posted at: Tue Jul 19th, 2005

Greece has decided to buy 30 F-16 fighter jets from the United States after scrapping a 4.9 billion euro deal with EADS for 60 Eurofighter planes last year, the country's defense ministry said on July 19. Greece's centre-right government, which gained power in March 2004, had said la...

Russian Jet Maker Promises Stealthy Aircraft

Posted at: Tue Jul 19th, 2005

Representatives from the Sukhoi Design Bureau say they are ready to launch a production line for a stealthy fighter jet similar to the F/A-22 Raptor. The Sukhoi company makes the Flanker line of aircraft, which some industry analysts consider to be comparable to the top-of-the-line U...

NASA has no luck finding glitch

Posted at: Tue Jul 19th, 2005

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- Five days of meticulous detective work by NASA engineers have failed to turn up the cause of a fuel sensor malfunction on the space shuttle Discovery, which is still sitting on its launch pad as precious days tick away toward a July 31 launch deadline.