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Message posted by Jose on June 20, 2001 at 13:03:09 PST:

New Stealth fly out of Area 51. It could be this.....?
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/plane-x47a-01a.html

X-43 crash control, jet OK for use
http://www.dailynews.com/news/articles/0601/20/new20.asp

Edwards gets a new leader
http://www.dailynews.com/news/articles/0601/20/new17.asp

Australia Eyes Global Hawk
Defense: A deal to sell 6 of the unmanned planes would boost Northrop's hold on the market.
http://www.latimes.com/business/columns/techcol/todays.topstory.htm

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U.S. on track to choose JSF winner
LE BOURGET, France, June 19 (Reuters) - The United States is on track to choose a winner for its mammoth Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jet programme by the target date of October 1, JSF programme manager Major-General Mike Hough said on Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE:LMT - news) and aerospace giant Boeing Co (NYSE:BA - news), the top two U.S. defence contractors, are competing for the JSF contract which would be the largest procurement in military aviation history.

The market is for 3,000 planes in the United States and another 3,000 internationally, Hough said at the Paris air show. In the United States, it is worth about $200 billion.
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Eurofighter says JSF may delay some buying Typhoon
LE BOURGET, France, June 19 (Reuters) - Eurofighter GmBH said on Tuesday that some countries might delay considering purchasing its Typhoon combat jets until more was known about the proposed fourth-generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in the United States.

``It is true that some nations are considering delaying their process to see if the JSF will become a reality or otherwise,'' Cesare Gianni, President of Eurofighter International, told reporters at the Paris air show.

Gianni named two nations -- Norway and the Netherlands.

The Eurofighter consortium consists of European aerospace group EADS , Britain's BAE Systems Plc (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: BA.L) and Italy's Finmeccanica .

The JSF programme director, Marine Corps Major-General Mike Hough, told reporters earlier on Tuesday that he was confident the JSF project would be approved by the Bush administration.

JSF has two main bidders -- Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE:LMT - news) and Boeing Co (NYSE:BA - news).

BAE, the fifth largest defence supplier to the Pentagon, is participating in both bids.

Hough also reiterated the winning bidder would be announced on October 1.

The Typhoon is promoted as the latest technology after third-generation competitors first built in the 1970s, but critics argue the aircraft is not so far ahead of upgraded versions of those planes.

Gianni said the JSF would not pose a problem for the Typhoon.

He said the JSF would not be fully operational until 2015 and five years behind the air-force needs of countries wanting to replace their third-generation combat aircraft.


"There are very few air forces that plan 15 years ahead," he
said.
The first Typhoon is scheduled to be delivered in June 2002.
The four nations behind the Typhoon -- Britain, Italy,

Germany and Spain -- have placed orders for the aircraft. Greece recently assured the Eurofighter consortium that it would go ahead with the purchase of 60 Typhoon jets after 2006.
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JSF director sees programme going forward
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010619/l19013453_4.html



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