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...battlefield" for the fights ahead with Congress, which gets the final word on military spending and doesn't take kindly to economic engines in its home districts and states being summarily axed. Key programs on his chopping block include the Air Force's $350 million-a-copy F-22 Fighter, the Army's $160 billion Future Combat Systems - a network of ground and air vehicles - and the Navy's DDG 1000 Destroyer. To prevail, Gates is employing what those in uniform call TTPs - tactics, techniques and procedures...
...than double our range and probably more than double our accuracy." Current sniper rifles can regularly hit trucks at 2,000 meters, but not bad guys. (The record kill is 2,430 meters, just over 1.5 miles. It was charted by Canadian army corporal Rob Furlong against a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan's Shah-i-kot valley during Operation Anaconda in March 2002 - but his first two shots missed.) "There's no limit as far as I can see so long as the bullet's stable - I think 2,000 or 2,500 meters is very attainable," Bell says...
...Under the aegis of reducing “wasteful spending” and favoring weapons for Iraq and Afghanistan over so-called “Cold War” systems, the administration will cancel further procurement of the world’s best fighter aircraft, end production of its most versatile cargo plane, do away with the flagship military communications satellite program for the next decade, scrap several major missile-defense projects and a search and rescue helicopter project, and significantly delay or cancel many U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs...
...Increase orders for the Joint Strike Fighter...
...Halt the production of the Raptor fighter jet after 187 units are delivered...