Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 16, 2011



Marine Test Pilots Prefer F-35 Over F-18 -- Aol Defense

Patuxent River NAS: With all the cost overruns, schedule delays and political wrangling over the F-35 program, Boeing has been trying to pitch the F-18 Super Hornet to countries that be growing weary of all this turmoil.

When my colleague Carlo Munoz spoke with Boeing Military Aircraft's Chris Chadwick about all this recently, Chadwick put the case for buying the F-18 this way.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

If China Saw U.S. Stealth Copter, It’s No Big Deal -- Danger Room

Iraqi Military Capabilities Growing, General Says -- Department of Defense

T-50 Fighter to Be Unveiled at MAKS -- Moscow Times

Taiwan developing new 'aircraft carrier killer'
-- Space Daily

Korea, US begin annual military drill -- Korea Times

South Korea Thinks F-35 Can Meet Schedule
-- Aviation Week

Turkey Signs Deal To Buy Six CH-47 Copters -- Defense News

Czech Cyber Security Strategies -- Defense Tech

Russian Could Deploy S-500 System For NATO Missile Defense, Expert Says
-- Global Security Newswire

Exclusive: Pentagon Probe Will Review Every Darpa Contract -- Danger Room

Drones descend on Washington
-- Washington Post

Exam-cheating scandal hits Navy sub
-- Yahoo News/AP

Cyber recruits key part of NSA hiring blitz -- Federal News Radio

Defense Companies Circle the Budget Wagons -- Aol Defense

$2.2 million for Secret Service's new armored buses -- Politico

Can the Army make itself understood? -- DoD Buzz

Cuts, new AFRICOM focus could affect HIV prevention programs
-- Stars and Stripes

Veterans' groups are frustrated by scams that prey on patriotism -- The Day

US releases CIA documents on Bay of Pigs invasion -- Yahoo News/AP

A war tax? It’s still not a bad idea -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post

True cost of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq is anyone's guess
-- Nancy A. Youssef, Stars and Stripes/McClatchy News

Why are there no living Medal of Honor recipients for the Iraq War? -- Greg Jaffe, Washington Post

WWII hero dies in Columbia -- The State

Oldest survivor of Bataan Death March dies at 105 -- Yahoo News/AP

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