[Posted on: Sat Feb 4th, 2006]
TONY Blair has failed to persuade President Bush to save Rolls-Royce's $2.4bn (1.36bn pounds, E2bn) contract to develop a second engine for America's Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35, The Business can confirm.
Read the full article

[Posted on: Sat Feb 4th, 2006]
ORLANDO, Fla.-The Air Force has accepted a smaller F-22 Raptor fighter fleet, would like to field a new long-range strike platform around 2018 and expects to commence the competition for a new tanker platform before the end of this year, the service’s two senior most officials said yesterday.
Read the full article

[Posted on: Fri Feb 3rd, 2006]
PRESIDENT BUSH had plans to lure Saddam Hussein into war by flying an aircraft over Iraq painted in UN colours in the hope he would shoot it down, a book reveals.
Read the full article

[Posted on: Fri Feb 3rd, 2006]
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.
Read the full article

[Posted on: Thu Feb 2nd, 2006]
PALMDALE - The Pentagon is proposing to speed up retirement of the F-117A stealth fighter and the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft in two programs that employ Lockheed Martin workers in Palmdale.
Read the full article

 

Quadrennial Defense Review Report

Air-Attack.com - All About Military Aviation, Space Projects & News