[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government raised its defence spending on Tuesday by a modest 7 percent for the next fiscal year, aiming to fund ambitious plans to modernise its 1.3 million-strong military, the fourth largest in the world.

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
MARIETTA, Ga., February 28, 2024 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] delivered the first C-130J airlifter of 2006 yesterday. The aircraft was flown to Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., and assigned to the 403rd Wing's 815th Airlift Squadron, Air Force Reserve Command's only C-130J combat delivery squadron.

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
Air Force officials told House lawmakers Tuesday night they want to proceed this year with expensive plans to replace its fleet of KC-135 aerial refueling tankers, despite a recent analysis that found the 1950s-era planes can fly for another quarter century.

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
With its Fiscal 2007 budget proposal, the Air Force embraces a dramatically new approach to long-range strike. The Air Force is to launch a new, possibly unmanned, bomber program far earlier than planned, moving the in-service year from 2037 to 2018. Air Force documents refer to the system as the Ne

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
Although there is still a lot of work to be done, NASA hopes to launch space shuttle Discovery in May, and wants to try 3 shuttle flights this year. The first launch window is May 10 to 22. The next opportunity lasts from the 1st to the 19th of July.

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
2/28/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Heritage, future innovations and focus on the joint warfighter are three key points in the newly released Air Force Vision document, "Lasting Heritage…Limitless Horizons: A Warfighter'’s Vision."

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
As we reported earlier, three to six Global Hawk UAV's will be stationed at Guam Air Force Base in the pacific.

[Posted on: Wed Mar 1st, 2006]
You can clearly see the United States are focussing more on Iraq and Iran. This month they conducted 'only' 170 reconnaissance missions over North Korea, according to a report by North Korean state media.

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