15 Soldiers Die in Helicopter Attack; Day of Bloodshed for US Troops as Iraqi Rebels Fight BackA US Chinook helicopter was downed in a missile attack launched by Iraqi rebels yesterday, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 21 others.
Finally, the service will delay procurement of its next-generation helicopter engine, which was set to be used in all UH-60s, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters as well as to power FARA. Instead, Bush said the Army will spend the newly available money on Black Hawks, the latest varia...
An artist’s rendering shows the potential LMXT tanker refueling a Next Generation Air Dominance fighter. (Courtesy of Lockheed Martin) The military reported “predictive maintenance has enabled pilots to avoid helicopter aircraft accidents and identify failures that were undetected by mechanics...
We spent the next two years steaming up and down the Yangtze, protecting missionaries when they had a rough time and looking after American rights. We could only go as far as Ichang, the foot of the gorges, where we began to strike the rapids. We had two little gunboats, theUSS Palos...
The US Army’s requirement for a next-generation armed scout platform to replace the acclaimed Bell OH-58 Kiowa has been around since the Light Helicopter Experimental (LHX) programme of the 1980s.
FARA is intended to finally fill the gap left open when the service decided to retire the Kiowa in 2013. The Army has used the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter teamed with unmanned aircraft to meet that mission, but procuring an attack reconnaissance aircraft is t...
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Government officials are also weighing the implications of the near-miss, which has underlined concerns about how to protect open source software. Assistant National Cyber Director Anjana Rajantold Politicothat “there’s a lot of conversations that we need to have about what we do next” to prot...
The first 21 destroyers (DDG51-DDG71) are categorised as Flight I, the next seven (DDG72-DDG78) as Flight II, and ships starting with USS Jack H Lucas (DDG 125) are classified as Flight III. The revised Flight IIA ships entered production in late 1997, and 39 vessels were commissione...
The US Air Force is asking the US Congress to let it retire 201 aircraft in fiscal year 2022, in order to reinvest savings from not operating and maintaining those aircraft into research and development, as well as procurement of next-generation aircraft