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Lockheed Martin’s CEO was quoted as saying at the company’s media day that the aerospace giant is “now producing a controllable, low-drag, aerodynamic configuration capable of stable operations from takeoff to subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic, to Mach 6.”
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A IA Arava transport plane operated by the Ecuadorian Army crashed in the eastern province of Pastaza on Mar. 15. All 22 people on board were killed.
By Oscar Josué Elvir Vasquez [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Defense Attache from the British Embassy in Moscow and the Assistant Naval Attache were accused of illegally filming and photographing Mozdok airbase early this month.
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Reuters reports that Germany could be buying the C-130 from Lockheed Martin as the A400M is considered too big and wide to operate out of certain runways.
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The U.S. Congress was told by Gen. John Hyten, commander of the Air Force Space Command, that the threat to U.S. military and intelligence satellites have reached a tipping point.
“ASAT Weapon Conception” by unknown, DoD photo – http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#guid=4d775e63c0d24847a41a115b52e7cf7ed4e11fb7. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.