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  Score One For The Bomber Team

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 8:50 PM on Jan 05, 2012

  A few items jump out from today's strategic review announcement. I was suprised and gratified by the fact that the Long Range Strike-Bomber project is not only unscathed but was si... Read More >>

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  Long-Range Strike Puzzle Pieces

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 11:15 AM on May 05, 2011

  If there is such a thing as a "bomber mafia" in US defense circles, Northrop Grumman's Robert Haffa, recently retired director of the company's Analysis Center, is one of its rulin... Read More >>

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  Where The 2018 Bomber Went

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 11:48 AM on Mar 18, 2011

  The document that the Government Accountability Office issued to back up Michael Sullivan's testimony on Tuesday included this chart:It's from April 2010. The most recent changes, ... Read More >>

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  New Bomber In New Budget Still A Long-Shot

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 6:47 PM on Feb 11, 2011

  It appears that planning for an advanced long-range strike and reconnaissance aircraft will remain rudimentary for a while.Finding the necessary “funding needed to get to a m... Read More >>

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  F-35B On Probation, New Bomber To Go Forward (Update)

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 7:37 PM on Jan 06, 2011

  Defense Secretary Robert Gates has "put the F-35B on probation", he tells media in his Pentagon press conference, now under way. Formerly at the head of the test program, the F-35B... Read More >>

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  CSBA Enters The Bomber Fray

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 1:39 PM on Sep 15, 2010

  Leading the Pentagon's own "family of systems" study of long-range strike options by a few weeks, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments released its own long range str... Read More >>

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  It's the 1960s Again

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 11:22 AM on Aug 05, 2010

  The USAF wants a bomber, but the Defense Secretary and joint-service leaders are opposed, so it's being rebranded as a reconnaissance-strike platform.  The SecDef's priority i... Read More >>

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  Build Up Naval, Air Forces After Current Wars, Experts Say

  Posted by Michael Bruno 5:43 PM on Jul 30, 2010

  A blue-ribbon panel of bipartisan national security experts is warning Congress that there should be no peace dividend after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, because U.S... Read More >>

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  Disappearing Technology Geeks

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 5:22 PM on Mar 18, 2010

  A number of  Northrop Grumman’s top innovators are being mysteriously replaced without any clues about where they are going. Are they being fired, retired? Don’t y... Read More >>

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  Going On Strike

  Posted by Douglas Barrie 3:01 PM on Dec 16, 2009

  The German air force is aiming to have its first Typhoon unit operational in the air-to-surface role – using the GBU-48 Enhanced Paveway II laser-guided bomb and the Litening... Read More >>

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