Another $50.5M to Upgrade American F110 Jet Engines

Rapid Fire 2010-11-26: EADS, Beyond Airbus

* Washington crosses the Korea Strait: US sends nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) from Japan to participate in joint exercises with South Korea. * Hairy, Audacious Goal: European defense giant EADS wants to reach $10 billion in non-Airbus...
Another $50.5M to Upgrade American F110 Jet Engines

Cobra Gold: The US Army’s Smart Retirement Program

USFS Fire Cobra(click to view full) What do you do with 469 attack helicopters, once you’ve decided to phase them out of service? That was the question facing America, after the Army decided to retire its AH-1P/S/F Cobra attack helicopter fleet in 1999, and the...
Another $50.5M to Upgrade American F110 Jet Engines

Rapid Fire: 2010-11-24

* Volley for serve: US sits tight after North Korea launches artillery volley against South’s Yeonpyeong island. * This comes hard on the heels of revelations that North Korea has a large, modern uranium enrichment facility, using P-2 centrifuges. This is less...
Another $50.5M to Upgrade American F110 Jet Engines

Rapid Fire 2010-11-23: European Missile Defense

* The full text of NATO’s 2010 Lisbon declaration, which lays out its new strategic concept, as well as approving the European missile defense shield (s. 36-38). * Can’t we all just get along?: US defense budget battle could be most contentious in decades,...