

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military will likely need fewer joint strike fighters than previously projected because of future advances in the warplane's capabilities and the planned expansion of the military's fleet of unmanned aircraft, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said Wednesday.


WASHINGTON -- President Bush's budget plan to eliminate a jet fighter engine made mainly in Ohio is "not sound business," the state's two senators said in a letter Wednesday to the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.


WASHINGTON - Diplomatic friction between the United States and Britain over the F-35 joint strike fighter worsened Tuesday, after Pentagon budget-cutters whacked an alternate engine being jointly developed by General Electric and British-based Rolls-Royce.
