EADS has conceded defeat in its attempt to sell an aerial refueling tanker to the U.S. Air Force.
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Month: March 2011
Eielson Wing Commander marks 4,000+ hours in F-16
Brigadier General James N. “Bull” Post III, the 354th Fighter Wing’s commander, recently clocked 4000.4 hours on the F-16. He is also the only known General officer to accomplish the feat while still on active duty.
U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Christopher Boitz
GAO: Moving carrier to Florida cheaper than Navy says
The U.S. General Accountability Office calculated that it is cheaper to move an aircraft carrier to Florida than what the U.S. Navy had estimated.
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Mikhail Simonov, designer of the Su-27, passed away
Mikhail Simonov, the former chief designer of Sukhoi, has passed away on Friday at the age of 81.
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LM agreed to Thaksin’s idea of chicken for F-16s
A Reuters special report on U.S weapons sales tactics gleamed from data obtained by WikiLeaks revealed that Lockheed Martin had agreed to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s demands to pay for F-16s using 80,000 frozen chicken back in 2005.
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