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Lockheed Martin F-35 STOVL Variant Flies SupersonicPatuxent River MD (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time June 10, achieving a significant milestone. The aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.07 (727 miles per hour) on the first in a long series of planned supersonic flights. "For the first time in military aviation history, supersonic, radar-evading stealth comes with short takeoff/vertical landing capability," said Bob Price, Lockheed Martin's F-35 U.S. Marine ... read more |
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Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 15, 2010Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft T2 successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight on June 8 in Seattle. T2 will be used to verify integrated mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. During the three-hour flight, the joint Boeing and Navy test team exercised mission computing on all five operator workstations an ... more  
Tehran (AFP) June 14, 2010Iran's Revolutionary Guards are unworried by the new UN sanctions that especially target the elite force, state-run media reported on Monday. "Whatever the severity of sanctions, they are not worrying us," IRNA quoted deputy Guards' commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami as saying. "We have grown and shaped our defence capabilities after taking into consideration the worst case scena ... more  
London (AFP) June 14, 2010Prime Minister David Cameron warned Monday that more British troops would be killed in Afghanistan, after his first official trip to the war-stricken country, and would not give a firm date for a withdrawal. Cameron said Britain "must be ready for further casualties over the summer months" and described 2010 as "the vital one" for overcoming the Taliban. But while acknowledging pressure ... more |
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Five killed in Iraq attacksBaghdad (AFP) June 14, 2010 Attacks across Iraq claimed the lives of five people on Monday, including a police colonel who was killed by a bomb in the south of the capital, security officials said. The senior officer had been on board a police convoy targeted by a bomb in the Dura district of Baghdad. Another policeman was also killed and three more were wounded, officials in the interior ministry said. Police were also targeted in Iraq's second city of Mosul in the north, when a booby-trapped cart blew up as a patrol pass ... read more |
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