Headlines of: Tuesday 15 August, 2006
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | nasa.gov

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.
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | news.bbc.co.uk
Israel and the United States were in close contact about Israel's war on Hezbollah long before it began, a US investigative journalist has claimed.
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | afmc.af.mil

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.
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | business.timesonline.co.uk

THE Government is set to announce the sale of 72 Eurofighter Typhoons to Saudi Arabia, possibly as early as Wednesday.
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | military.com

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. ...
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | military.com

"This thing is a turkey," Pierre Sprey says of the Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter.
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | money.aol.com

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.
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Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | baesystems.com

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...