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April 07, 2005

VHXX Helicopter Contract Blows Up In Senate

Lawmakers Catfight Over District Jobs, Price Seems To Have Quadrupled

Lockheed Martin, legendary for cost overruns*, may have set a new record, and the bill isn't even out of the Senate yet. According to multiple news reports, the $1.7 billion VHXX helicopter contract is now a $6.1 billion project. The bill authorizing the procurement of the new presidential helicopter is stalled by the parliamentary tactics of Senator Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, who is upset that home-state Sikorsky did not receive the contract. This prompted a counterattack by New York senators, who are hoping to claim credit for assembly jobs that will be created at Bell, a Lockheed Martin partner in the contract, in depressed upstate Oswego.

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Weapons Buyer Praises F/A-22

Says Aircraft Almost Surely Headed For Full-Rate Production

The man in charge of buying weapons for the Pentagon really likes Lockheed Martin's F/A-22 Raptor. He thinks the aircraft is virtually assured of achieving full-rate production.

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Toll Rises In Afghanistan Chinook Mishap

16 Dead -- Most Of Them Americans

Mission accomplished and returning to base, a US Army CH-47 Chinook went down in heavy weather over southeastern Afghanistan Wednesday. The death toll in the mishap has now climbed to 16 -- most of them American soldiers.

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USS Carl Vinson F/A-18s Strike Insurgents in Iraq

Strike fighter aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9, flying from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Persian Gulf, attacked an enemy insurgent location east of Baghdad, Iraq, April 4.

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Army Helo Pilot Faces Court Martial After Afghanistan Crash

CWO Charged With Violating Orders, Negligent Homicide

An Army chief warrant officer faces court martial after his UH-60 Blackhawk crashed in Afghanistan last year.

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Secret Solar Spyplane Soars South 'Stralia

Woomera Launches A British UAV, Built By The Real "Q"

A trickle of news reports worldwide indicates that an odd British unmanned spyplane, the Zephyr 3, is flying in remote Woomera, South Australia. The project is shrouded by a cloak of secrecy, even though many significant features of the aircraft have been revealed. It is likely that the machine is destined for covert or clandestine undertakings, once testing is complete.

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