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Gates' first showdown looms with a $350 million--a--pop fighter jet. He has to decide by March 1 whether to add more F-22 Raptor fighters to the 183 purchased by the Bush Administration. For years, the Air Force has wanted to double the fleet, while Gates has made clear that he thinks 183 is sufficient. A month ago, some Air Force officials were saying privately that maybe 60 more F-22s would suffice. The Pentagon's acquisition boss, John Young, recently detailed why more F-22s might be a poor investment. The F-22s that exist are ready...
...number of unmanned aircraft is soaring, it hasn't kept pace with the demand in Afghanistan and Iraq, where requirements for full-motion video are growing 300% annually. For every F-22 that isn't bought, the Air Force could add about a dozen desperately needed drones to its fleet...
...Friday, the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, which has deployed ships along the Somali coast to try to clamp down on piracy, said teams had boarded the Faina to provide food and medical help to the 20 crewmen on board. The captain died of a heart attack soon after the capture. "The U.S. Navy has remained within visual range of the ship and maintained a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week presence since it was captured," the 5th Fleet said...
...landmarks pulverized but its resilience intact, the British capital has regarded itself as indomitable. But at 9 a.m. on a wintry Monday, a shock wave cracked that image, much as a V-2 rocket hitting a house would damage neighboring properties. Londoners learned that the city's entire fleet of buses had been recalled to its depots, defeated not by bombs - the service had run quixotically but without interruption throughout the Blitz - but by snow. A mere six inches...
...starting on Sunday had by Monday morning spread a nice little blanket of snow across the British capital. It was only 6 inches deep, but it managed to shut down or sharply curtail service on most Tube lines, it caused chaos at airports, and it halted London's entire fleet of red buses. As disgruntled commuters were quick to point out, unlike today, buses continued running throughout intensive aerial bombardment during World War II. That comparison resonated with one elderly supermarket stock boy in an affluent London suburb. "A fine country, isn't it?" he observed, as customers loaded...