California Guard to get the Predator

Posted at: Thu Jan 5th, 2006

1/4/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The California Air National Guard's 163rd Air Refueling Wing at March Air Reserve Base will the home for a new MQ-1 Predator unit. The announcement was made today by the Air Force, National Guard Bureau and the Adjutant G...

C-130J purchase hailed as positive

Posted at: Thu Jan 5th, 2006

There's good news for the C-130J program at the Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta. A budget proposal by the Defense Department calls for purchasing 13 of the supercargo aircraft for $1.15 billion over the next two years instead of the next six ...

Pentagon to retire U-2 spy plane

Posted at: Thu Jan 5th, 2006

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A classified budget document approved by the Pentagon Dec. 23 calls for the termination by 2011 of one of the most heavily relied-upon reconnaissance planes in the Iraq war. The storied U-2 spy plane would commence retirement...

The Remote Controlled Military and the Future of Warfare

Posted at: Thu Jan 5th, 2006

Digital Journal - In a secluded desert in California, two sleek 27-foot-long planes zip across the sky, dipping and swerving like air-show hotshots. But the flying turns vicious when a pop-up target appears and the Boeing aircraft quickly communicate with each other to determine which has the better...

New alloy could mean faster jet fighters

Posted at: Thu Jan 5th, 2006

MES, IA, United States (UPI) -- A new high-strength aluminum alloy being developed by government researchers could make jet aircraft fly farther and faster. The new alloy is being developed for use in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will become the ...

British threat to fighter project

Posted at: Thu Jan 5th, 2006

AUSTRALIA is facing a further cost blowout on its purchase of next-generation fighters, with Britain threatening to pull out of the US-led joint strike fighter project over Washington's reluctance to share the secrets of stealth technology.