October 28, 2002

October 28, 2002

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Comanche Plan Gets Green Light

By ROBERT WALL7 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

NASA Overhauling SLI To Fund Station Lifeboat

By FRANK MORRING5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Europe’s Integral To Open Door To Gamma-Ray Universe

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA5 min

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New Comanche Plan Gets Green Light

WASHINGTON The Pentagon’s decision to restructure the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter program, but slash procurement, also forces the Army to develop an unmanned adjunct to Comanche and upgrade AH-64D Apaches. After more than 10 months of deliberations, the Defense Dept. has defined its seventh Comanche plan.

By ROBERT WALL7 min

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NASA Overhauling SLI To Fund Station Lifeboat

Delta IV launch would permit early hike in space station crew size for scientists, international partners; RLV development delayed

By FRANK MORRING5 min

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Europe’s Integral To Open Door To Gamma-Ray Universe

DARMSTADT, GERMANY Astronomers are expecting a newly launched European gamma-ray telescope to greatly enhance their knowledge of super-dense objects like black holes and neutron stars, and provide important insights into gamma-ray bursts and other extreme radiation phenomena.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA5 min

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Advanced Stealth Appears In Boeing ‘BOP’ Prototype

ST. LOUIS Next-generation stealth technology developed for the Bird of Prey demonstrator aircraft—or BOP as it was called by its pilots—helped Boeing win the low-observable part of the Joint Strike Fighter competition even though the contract finally went to Lockheed Martin.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

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JDAM Sales Expected To Reach $6 Billion

ST. LOUIS Boeing has several bright spots in its military business, including at least $1 billion in orders placed during the last year for all-weather Joint Direct Attack Munitions guidance kits. More than 70,000 JDAM kits have been contracted for delivery through 2004 in a program that was originally slated to top out at 87,000 units, said Robert A. Algarotti, Boeing’s manager of communications for weapons programs.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM4 min

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Boeing Explores Unorthodox Army Aviation Concepts

WASHINGTON As part of its continuing effort to interest the Army in novel lift aircraft, Boeing is mulling development of a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that could move equipment around the battlefield and would use a pulsed-ejector thrust propulsion system.

By ROBERT WALL3 min

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Britain Seeks To Decouple Tranches From Technology

LONDON Britain is quietly trying to tear up the present rigid route-map for acquiring future standards of the Eurofighter Typhoon, and persuade its three partner nations to do likewise, in favor of a more flexible technology insertion approach.

By DOUGLAS BARRIE3 min

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South Africa's ATE Designing Additional Hind Upgrades

By Michael A. Taverna3 min

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Germany Warns Of A400M Cuts As Partners Push for Resolution

By JENS FLOTTAU2 min

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Fiscal Straitjacket Limits Italy's Room To Maneuver

By Andy Nativi2 min

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