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Postcards from Deployment: “The Song That Never Ends”
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“Now Hear This — Mail Call, Mail Call…”
In this age of (near) instantaneous contact via email or, where accessible, the various pieces of social media our deployed Sailors, Marines, Soldiers and Airmen can access, there is still nothing, and I do mean nothing, quite as satisfying as a letter or package that arrives in the mail. The whiff of perfume still tenuously…
China to Sell 4th Gen. Fighters to Iran
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Northrop-Grumman With Inside Track on Next-Gen Bomber?
At a cool (and covert) $2B, N-G’s Integrated Technology division has been funded to build a demonstrator which may be a twin-engine aircraft resembling an X-47B according to this AW&ST article released today. There is some discussion that an extended range, unmanned bomber will follow based on knowledge gained from the secret-demonstrator, but that runs…