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Settling A400M Contract Issues to Take Months
Europe's efforts to stabilize the Airbus Military A400M development and production program are far from finalized even though industry and the seven countries backing the program have agreed on a new financing scheme to cover several billion euros in cost overruns.
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UAV Could Be Battlefield Ambulance
The Israel Defense Forces medical corps is looking at procuring an innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will evacuate critical casualties directly from the battlefield to the hospital. This would get more wounded to the hospital within the "golden hour," the critical time in which a medical evacuation has the best chance of saving a wounded soldier's life.
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Army Requests New Combat Vehicle
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Program Focuses on Preventing Injuries
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VA Announces $41M in Hospital Contracts
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MV-22 and ABV Meet Expectations
While CH-53 helicopters were unloading Marines in the Now Zad valley in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on Dec. 4, history was being made a short distance away. Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft were disgorging Marines from the reconnaissance unit Task Force Raider in three landing zones at the opposite end of the valley, kicking off an assault on the Now Zad area to eliminate Taliban influence.
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Despite Heron Deal, Turkey and Israel at Odds
Amid a deteriorating relationship between Ankara and Jerusalem, the long-delayed sale of Israeli Heron unmanned air vehicles to Turkey is finally getting underway.
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US Army Musters GCV
The reverberations from Defense Secretary Robert Gates's decision last year to cancel the Pentagon's ill-starred $160-billion Future Combat Systems (FCS) program have been felt nowhere more deeply than by the team tasked with designing the program's Manned Ground Vehicle (MGV), which was billed as the Army's infantry carrier of the future.
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Piracy Thrives in a Failed State
Somalia was named the worst country in the world by The Economist, which observed that even "calling [it] a country is a stretch." Somalia's failed-nation status is one reason it leads the world in piracy.
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Joint Strike Fighter on the Defensive
After a year of broken promises, blown deadlines, and a failure to make progress in flight testing that not even the harshest critics predicted, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is on the defensive.
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