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North Korea Actually Isn’t Gloating Over Japan’s Quake
Usually, North Korea doesn’t miss an opportunity to castigate its Japanese enemy. Tokyo harbors “a militarist ambition for overseas aggression”; its top officials spew “a string of nonsense”; and the...
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Navy: Libya Won’t Interfere With Our Japan Aid
To say this is a busy time for the U.S. military is an understatement: Iraq, Afghanistan, helping Japan recover from its greatest postwar crisis, and now Libya. But the admiral in charge of disaster...
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Flying Beer Keg to the Rescue in Japan
The Defense Department canned the so-called “Flying Beer Keg.” But the hovering drone and some of its robot pals now have a new mission: helping Japan manage its multiple post-earthquake disasters....
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It Was March Madness for ‘Global Hawk’ Spy Drone
If you were filling out brackets for a showdown between the U.S. military’s 7,000 drones, you probably wouldn’t pick the Global Hawk to take it all. It fires no missiles. It kills no insurgents. It’s...
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Chinese Navy Mission Reveals Secret Drone
It was another big reveal in a long history of them. Six months after the Chinese air force let the first photos of its new stealth fighter leak online, Beijing’s military has “accidentally” showed off...
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Real U.S. Stealth-Tech Advantage: Its Assembly Lines
For more than 20 years, the U.S. Air Force had a world monopoly on radar-evading technology — and with it, a huge advantage over any rival. Several generations of stealth fighters and bombers, from the...
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Pentagon: Blame Tight Vests, Not Stealth Jets, for Choking Pilots
The mysterious engineering problem causing F-22 Raptor pilots to choke in their cockpits has been solved, the Pentagon says. And it's not the $400 million aircraft's fault after all.
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General: ‘My Career Was Done’ When I Criticized Flawed Warplane
Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of 2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a...
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Pentagon Preps Stealth Strike Force to Counter China
Soon three varieties of stealthy U.S. warplanes could all be within striking range of China at the same time.
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest U.S. Robot Market
The drone industry's major professional association, AUVSI, is thinking hard about what a non-military U.S. market for drones looks like. Its theory: farms will buy more robots than cops will.
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Why Beijing Could Win the Great China-America Showdown of 2030
Over the next 15-20 years, the U.S. and China are headed for a confrontation in the western Pacific, with Japan caught in the middle. And China, currently the underdog, could very well come out on top.
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