Congress, Pentagon Move To Rein in Space Programs

Posted at: Fri Dec 23rd, 2005

This may be remembered as the year both Congress and the Pentagon finally lost patience with the military’s trouble-plagued space programs, as lawmakers applied the brakes to new development projects while Defense Department officials restructured two ongoing efforts that have come to symbolize al...

India, Russia set to go for 5th Generation fighters

Posted at: Fri Dec 23rd, 2005

New Delhi, December 22: The government on Thursday said it was in discussion with Russia for joint development and manufacture of fifth generation fighter aircraft. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Russia had proposed jo...

Wright-Pat scramjet earns X-plane status from the Pentagon

Posted at: Fri Dec 23rd, 2005

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | The Pentagon has given X-plane status to a $212 million program aimed at test-flying a revolutionary jet engine developed at Wright-Patterson, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced this week.