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“If the RD-180 is prematurely cut off before a new engine and vehicle is certified, there will be no other launch provider who can perform the full range of launch capabilities currently required under the law...”
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These awards, from existing customers, are related to continuing production on a long term Electronic Attack (EA) airborne platform.
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"Unreliable funding jeopardizes aircraft, cutter and boat maintenance and operations."—Admiral Xukunft, U.S.C.G. Commandant.
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“This means longer timelines to arrive, less time to prevail, if we do, more ships and aircraft out of action when in battle, more sailors, Marines and merchant mariners killed.”—Navy Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert.
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Once upgraded, the systems will be able to receive and process imagery from the RADARSAT-2 and RapidEye satellites...
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The turboprop-powered, multi-mission Reaper armed drone can fly for more than 27 hours between refueling at speeds to 240 knots at altitudes to 50,000 feet.
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..".in 1990 to that conflict, the United States Air Force had 188 fighter squadrons—188. In the FY ‘16 budget, we’ll go to 49; 188 to 49.”...Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III
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...it represents the first time a Global Hawk has been sold to an allied nation in the Asia-Pacific region under the Foreign Military Sales process.
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“Pilots sitting in a squadron looking out at their airplanes parked on a ramp certainly feels like a hollow force, whether we define it that way or not.—General Mark A. Welsh III, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff.
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"In a major conflict, those shortfalls will result in a delayed response and/or additional casualties."—General Joseph F. Dunford, United States Marine Corps Commandant.
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