In what could prove to be the first step toward creating a joint
RQ-4 Unmanned Aircraft System training unit, pilots of the 1st
Reconnaissance Squadron at California's Beale Air Force Base are
teaching a class of Navy pilots the Global Hawk system.
Large Defense Budget Seen As Opportunity For US Company
While the rest of the world struggles with a dip in the economy,
spending in the defense segment of aviation and aerospace remains
very robust. Lockheed Martin says it's weathering the economic
crisis well, and is reaching out to Israel to buy its F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter to keep its outlook bright.
Today, November 11, 2008, is Veterans Day in the United States.
The date was the Armistice date of the War to End All Wars. (They
were wrong about the name).
The US Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract
to provide maintenance for both E-2C Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound
aircraft at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, MD.
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