News of August 15, 2006
ISS: Building a Ship Outside a Shipyard
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
It's not your typical shipbuilder's site. In fact, it's not your typical ship. There are no outfitting piers or full-service bulkheads. No sights of yellow hard hats or sounds of beeping trucks with back-up alarms. However, men and women are at work, harder now than ever before.
Atlantis Crew Preps for Launch
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
Shuttle Flight Readiness Review Begins Today
The traditional two-day flight readiness review, a thorough assessment of preparations for mission STS-115, begins today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The meeting is designed to produce a number of key decisions about Atlantis...
US 'knew of Israel bombing plan'
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006Israel and the United States were in close contact about Israel's war on Hezbollah long before it began, a US investigative journalist has claimed. "Israel had devised a plan for attacking Hezbollah, and shared it with Bush administration officials, well before" 12 July, Seymour Hers...
Modifications to extend service life of A-10s
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- At first glance the A-10 cockpit looks like a category five tornado just touched down in the middle of it.
The chaotic scene - hundreds of loose wires and instrumentation ripped from consoles - however, is real...
BAE is Poised for 5bn Pounds Saudi Eurofighter Contract
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
THE Government is set to announce the sale of 72 Eurofighter Typhoons to Saudi Arabia, possibly as early as Wednesday.
The fighters will be built by BAE Systems in a deal thought to be worth about £5 billion.
Des Browne...
DoD Mulls Options for Future Spy Plane
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
A Pentagon-wide study probing the use of current and future intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets has identified several avenues for proceeding with development of a new spy-plane fleet that was halted -- one of which involves relying solely on an unmanned aircraft, according to Col. ...
Raptor Operators Answer Critics
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
"This thing is a turkey," Pierre Sprey says of the Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter.
Sprey, one of the designers of the successful Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter, has been presenting a litany of F-22 criticisms alo...
Lockheed Opposes US Army Move To Drop C-130 From JCA Contest
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) on Monday attacked the U.S. Army's decision to drop the company's C-130J aircraft from a $6 billion cargo plane contest, filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office and urging that the whole program be put on hold.
BAE Systems Successfully Completed Tests on its Skylynx II UAS
Posted at: Tue Aug 15th, 2006
YUMA, Arizona -- BAE Systems successfully completed tests on its Skylynx II unmanned aircraft system at Yuma Proving Grounds on Aug. 9. During test flights it met key requirements including acoustic performance, endurance, and payload capability for reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisiti...
