Xu Zengping was formerly the captain of the PLA Guangzhou Military Command basketball team, in the late 1990s, he was tasked with negotiating the purchase of China’s first aircraft carrier.
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Sweetman: Joint Strike Fighter Debate Enters New Phase
Bill Sweetman has written a new oped on the F-35 in which he concludes: “We have passed at great cost through much of the era of programmatic risk with the F-35. Now, we are looking more at operational risk, with strategic risk on the horizon.”
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LA Times taking Pentagon to court over GMD bonuses
The Los Angeles Times has taken the Pentagon to court in order to force the latter to reveal information on bonuses and incentives it paid contractors for delivering the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System (GMD).
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UAE offered Mirage 2000-9s to Iraq
A UAE government source says the Gulf state has offered up to 10 Mirage 2000-9 fighters to the Iraqi Air Force.
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USS Constellation arrives at scrap yard
Decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Constellation has arrived at a shipyard in Texas where it will be scrapped. Click the source to view pictures of the arrival.
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