Shorter Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz: Robert Gates is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. Via Danger Room.
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General Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff:All right, all right -- some people have to play little games. You play yours. So let's just say that you'll give me 60.
Raptor down in the California desert. The immediate concern is the pilot; reports thus far give no indication as to his condition. That's probably not good, but of course we.
Would shutting down the Raptor really put 95000 people out of work? No. David Axe has the data:Problem is, that 95,000 number counts indirect employment at firms for whom the F-22 program is just one of many clients. And it also counts Lockheed assembly workers...
For some reason, the Atlantic continues to attract love letters to aircraft. I had hoped that Robert Kaplan's ode to the B-2 Spirit would be sufficient embarrassment to the magazine.
The United Kingdom is considering pulling out of the F-35 project:BRITAIN is considering pulling out of a £9 billion project with America to produce the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Redbeard writes in an e-mail:The F-22 is all over Iron Man. Probably gets as much screen time as the Audi driven by Tony Stark. Wonder if that will get Congress to buy a bunch of them.I don't know; the F-22 also got tooled pretty badly...