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			<title>Airbus Aims at Huge A400M Export Market</title>
			<description><![CDATA[SEVILLA, Spain --- Now that its A400M has won its European certification, and with the first production aircraft due to be delivered to the French air force later this month, Airbus Military is ready to begin to seriously market the aircraft world-wide.

“Until now, we’ve been really focused on ce...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:21:22 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>V-22 ‘Reputation Remake’ Falls Flat</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- As a matter of policy and professional courtesy, we do not normally criticize other media, apart from the odd comment when published articles contain errors too big to ignore.

However, the article excerpted below, <i>“<a href='http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/09/190817/reputation-rema...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:19:23 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Caesar SP Gun Transforms French Artillery</title>
			<description><![CDATA[DRAGUIGNAN, France --- The French army has almost completed the wholesale transformation of its artillery, a process which has seen the merger of its air-defense and field artillery units and the gradual replacement of its towed (TRF1) and self-propelled (AUF1) 155mm howitzers by the Caesar truck-mo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:51:16 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Iraq 10 Years On: What Have We Learned?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[On the decennial of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the persons responsible have shown remarkably little guilt over launching an unprovoked war of aggression, even when the lamentable results might be expected to give one pause to rethink the enterprise. 

Marveling at the complacency about Iraq of Ame...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:05:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>How Lockheed’s P.R. Keeps F-35 Flying</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the spring of 2012 Al Bunting received a message imploring him to publicly endorse America’s warplane of the future.

Bunting, a retired senior Air Force officer and administrator for the tiny New Jersey coastal town of Sea Girt, was not alone. Across the Garden State in 2011 and 2012,...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:31:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Afterburning Engine Can’t Stand Heat</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The F-35 Joint Program Office’s Feb. 28 decision to allow the F-35 fleet to resume flying is explained, according to media reports, by the fact that no other turbine blade cracks have been discovered, which is taken to imply that no engine redesign is needed.

Engine maker Pratt & Whitne...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:41:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The Long History of F-35 Engine Problems</title>
			<description><![CDATA[KESTEREN, Netherlands --- On Thursday, February 21, 2013, the Pentagon Friday ordered the grounding for all F-35 aircraft, after a routine check at the Edwards Air Force Base revealed a crack in a low pressure turbine blade in the engine of an F-35A. 

This is but the latest incident concerning th...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:26:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Mali Shows Need for COIN Aircraft</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- History shows that military interventions have many unintended consequences. One of them is the heavy weaponry acquired by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghred (AQIM) after the overthrow of the late Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Now Mali has become the first casualty of Libya’s revolution, and the ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:49:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Arrogance is No Substitute for Engineering</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- In a rare case of aeronautical symmetry, two American aircraft programs and two European aircraft programs have suffered high-profile, highly-publicized failures in recent years. Yet, while the European programs have recovered and are arguably now stronger for having survived, both America...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:21:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Mali Discredits US African Strategy</title>
			<description><![CDATA[An essential part of the U.S. plan to deal with the threat of global terrorism while simultaneously reducing direct U.S. involvement is a buildup of the capacity of partner nations to do more for themselves. The U.S. has spent many tens of billions of dollars training and equipping Iraqi and Afghan ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:38:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>**F-35 Lot 5 Unit Costs Exceed $223M</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin on Dec. 14 signed the final contract installment for the fifth production batch of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, concluding negotiations that had to be extended for an extra year.

The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said that the price of the Lo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:06:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>**Costing Canada’s Fighter Options (Updated)</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The huge controversy that has erupted in Canada over the projected cost of its proposed 65 F-35 fighters, and that may well claim the head of at least one cabinet minister, has mostly concentrated on their ballooning operating costs. 

Relatively less attention has been given to the gove...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:48:16 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Op-Ed: Buying US Weapons: Caveat Emptor</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- It is not often that governments are afforded the luxury of looking into the future before they irrevocably commit to a course of action that will have momentous long-term consequences.

Yet, this is just what the debate about the future of Britain’s fleet of Apache attack helicopters pr...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:41:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>AW Completes AW609 Tiltrotor Takeover</title>
			<description><![CDATA[CASCINA COSTA, Italy --- Combining vertical take-off and landing with high transit speeds has always been the helicopter designer’s lodestar, but the technical limitations inherent to rotary wings limit the helicopter’s maximum speed to less than 200 knots – and, in fact, to about 150 knots in terms...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:51:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Neuron UCAV’s Flight Is Call to Arms</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS and ISTRES, France --- Europe’s Neuron Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle made its first flight on Dec. 1, demonstrating European industry’s ability to build a stealthy attack drone and reminding European politicians that follow-on programs are urgently needed to maintain this critical capability.
...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:18:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>RTD Seeks Core Role in Consolidation</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- Having undertaken what it considers as the first step in the consolidation of France’s army equipment industry by purchasing Panhard, Renault Trucks Defense (RTD) hopes to resume its merger talks with the state-owned Nexter group.

Despite current uncertainties about the new French gover...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:48:16 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Europe’s Defense In Times of Austerity</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of the global economic crisis NATO and EU countries have been called to reassess (and significantly cut down) their defence spending. With the public debt and Eurozone crisis, and economic growth projected to stagnate, pressure on decision makers has increased. So far, their firs...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:35:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>F-35 Faces New Hurdles in Netherlands, Italy and Canada</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- While the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter appears to have cleared a major hurdle in the Netherlands, when two separate reports recommended completing the current Operational Test & Evaluation Phase, the program is becoming embroiled in further controversy in Canada over the government’s reluctan...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:13:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title> BAE-EADS Merger Seen from Berlin</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The merger with BAE Systems has failed as the British, French and Germans were unable to come to an agreement. Defense and aerospace giant EADS must now seek a new strategy for the future. 

Fighter planes are out, passenger planes are in - at least in the European market. In cash-strapped times n...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:01:05 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Proposed Merger Saves BAE, Handicaps EADS</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- While most observers and analysts are focusing on how the proposed merger between BAE Systems and EADS will be implemented, what each government is likely to demand to secure its sovereign interests, and what the US and EU competition authorities are likely to have to say, some basic quest...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:34:56 +0200</pubDate>
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