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![Tue Feb 7th, 2006 - Nighthawk set for retirement](../../../news/images/f117a.jpg)
WASHINGTON - The F-117A Nighthawk, the stealth fighter that launched Operation Iraqi Freedom, is "long in the tooth" and among the Southern California defense programs being put out to pasture, Pentagon officials said Monday as they unveiled a record $493.3 billion budget that eliminates some of the
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![Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 - Canada in talks to spend $10B on stealth jets](../../../news/images/f35_2.jpg)
Canada is in negotiations that could eventually lead to the multibillion-dollar purchase of the latest stealth fighter being built for the American arsenal.
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![Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 - Lift-off as Production Starts on First STOVL F-35 JSF](../../../news/images/f35.jpg)
SAMLESBURY, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2006--BAE Systems has started production of the first U.K. components for the Short Take-Off / Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the world's next generation stealth fighter jet.
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