California Guard to get the Predator
Posted on: Thu Jan 5th, 2006 | af.mil

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.

C-130J purchase hailed as positive
Posted on: Thu Jan 5th, 2006 | aimpoints.hq.af.mil

There's good news for the C-130J program at the Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta.

Pentagon to retire U-2 spy plane
Posted on: Thu Jan 5th, 2006 | upi.com

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 Remote Controlled Military and the Future of Warfare
Posted on: Thu Jan 5th, 2006 | digitaljournal.com

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 on: Thu Jan 5th, 2006 | science.monstersandcritics.com

MES, IA, United States (UPI) -- A new high-strength aluminum alloy being developed by government researchers could make jet aircraft fly farther and faster.

British threat to fighter project
Posted on: Thu Jan 5th, 2006 | theaustralian.news.com.au

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.