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Your report questioning the price of and need for 20 additional B-2 Stealth bombers for the Air Force [Defense, Jan. 30] barely scratches the surface. The venerable B-52 will be flying long after both the B-1 and B-2 are retired. The B-52 is combat proven and requires no major modifications to carry popular weapons configurations. Why then are we rapidly modifying our new aircraft to match the capabilities of our old aircraft so that these still viable planes can be retired? Yes, I want a strong defense, but imagine how far the $20 billion being...
...Cochran addressed the jury on Wednesday, it had become clear, not only to the increasingly agitated prosecutors but also to legal analysts, that the Dream Team is more than just highly paid, highly qualified and highly dedicated. Cochran & Co. unveiled an unexpectedly strong defense. They also demonstrated--by their stealth-witness gambit--that they are prepared to push this case to the very limits of legality. Says Gigi Gordon, a leading Los Angeles defense attorney: ``Those jurors are all sitting around in their little hotel rooms right now thinking, Wow, four guys in watch caps! And whose blood is under...
...head of the Air Combat Command, told Congress three years ago. Legislators were skeptical, threatening to pay for only 15, but they were eventually convinced. Today, however, B-2 advocates in the defense industry, on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon are lobbying for 20 more of the Stealth bombers. Seven former Defense Secretaries have urged President Clinton to buy more B- 2s because, they wrote in a Jan. 4 letter, ``the end of the cold war was neither the end of history nor the end of danger.'' Furthermore, B-2 builder Northrop Grumman has quite a deal...
...NASA X-31 fighter jet went down late Thursday in the desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California, after the pilot safely ejected. The experimental craft, which may be modified to become the first supersonic stealth fighter, completed two earlier flights yesterday without problems...
...delays in the military's modernization programs -- cost-cutting that amounts to savings of $7.7 billion. Defense Secretary William Perry today said $200 million will be trimmed from the Air Force's F-22 fighter budget, forcing a delay in the aircraft's production, while work on the Comanche stealth helicopter has been downgraded to a prototype program, saving $2 billion. The $2.1 billion TSSAM attack missile has been cancelled entirely and the Navy's new submarine will be also be delayed by a year. TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson warns though that today's proposed cuts...