UK helo shortage remains, Parliament warns
By Philip Ewing on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 ![]()
A British Parliamentary committee finds that the UK’s much-discussed helicopter shortages aren’t resolved, after all.
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A British Parliamentary committee finds that the UK’s much-discussed helicopter shortages aren’t resolved, after all.
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Crews swap parts to get ready to sail or take aboard inspectors, and the practice is common across the fleet — especially aboard submarines.
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NASA and ULA say they’ll cooperate on studying whether humans could someday fly to space on a big utility rocket.
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An extended look at how DoD arrived at what one analyst calls “an inflection point,” what it means, and where things could go next.
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The Air Force would like to be able to retire more of its aging C-5A cargo planes, but first Congress needs to give authorization to shrink the size of its airlift fleet.
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The week that was. The links that were.
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With more rounds of defense spending cuts looming, the Pentagon must choose which roles and missions are a top priority and which ones aren’t important as it drafts future budgets; a move that will no doubt entail risk and the usual round of ‘painful choices,’ a pair of think tankers advised lawmakers and their staff today on Capitol Hill.
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A detachment of Marines has begun flying their own dedicated drones with the help of a new runway at Camp Leatherneck.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain said via Twitter he thought the cost overruns were ‘outrageous!’ and ‘disgraceful.’
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It’s hard to know what to make of the rumors and reports that a grand budget deal in Washington could end up costing the Navy an aircraft carrier or two.
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Iran is trying to counter the American condemnations with “news” stories and official denials — the question is, who is it trying to reach with such messages?
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Navy engineers are determining how they’ll accommodate both their new and existing fighters when the jets get mixed together on carrier flight decks.
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Top service officials acknowledge that it’ll take much more time and effort to reverse the problems plaguing the Navy’s surface fleet.
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A commentator warns that investors’ hunger for short-term gains from the defense sector could have bad long-term consequences for the industrial base.
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Organizers in Oklahoma want to set up a special aerial preserve where UAVs can fly high and free, part of an ambitious goal of becoming a new hub of unmanned aviation
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Although there’s no official talk of foreign military sales, teams from the Israeli Air Force have been spending a lot of time lately with the Marines and their MV-22s.