Saturday, February 12, 2011

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 12, 2011

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Japan's Roadmap To An Indigenous Fighter -- Aviation Week

Japanese industry is urging the government to keep the country’s planned F-X fighter in production until 2028, raising the stakes for the three Western companies competing for the program.

Full-scale development of an indigenous follow-on fighter, meanwhile, should begin between 2015 and 2017, the industry’s Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies recommends. The industry thus envisages two parallel, long-term projects, one for the factories and one for the development teams, to sustain the country’s fighter industrial base after deliveries of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries F-2s end this year.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

India Defence’s Aero India 2011 coverage. -- Aero India Coverage

China: We Are Mean, Clean And Very Well Informed -- Strategy Page

Russia’s Black Sea Threat?
-- War Is Boring

EADS – Dailmer Out, Government In? -- Defpro

Matrix Composites delivers final F-22 part -- Composites World

U.S. Budget Impasse Delays Navy Ship Repairs -- Defense News

Things Could Get Worse for Troubled Stealth Jet -- The Danger Room

F-35 engine won't be cut from US budget-lawmaker -- Reuters

First Aircraft Certified for Biofuel -- Military.com

General Dynamics designs a cheaper sub -- Washington Business Journal

Jurisdiction Issues Complicate DoD Cybersecurity Role -- Defense News

From Pentagon, a Buy Rating on Contractors -- New York Times

Hawaii, Japan Mark Anniversary of Deadly Collision -- Voice of America

Marine recieves Navy Cross for heroic actions during Vietnam War -- Marines.mil

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