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			<title>F-35 Reality Check 10 Years On (Part 1)</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The controversy that has again flared up in Canada about the planned purchase of F-35 fighters is a perfect illustration of the stubbornness with which some governments are pursuing plans to buy this controversial aircraft despite all of the documented technical faults, schedule slippages ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:55:31 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>The Jet That Ate the Pentagon</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The United States is making a gigantic investment in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, billed by its advocates as the next -- by their count the fifth -- generation of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat aircraft. Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to dominate any future battlefield, the F-...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:10:59 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Agni-V, SSN Boost Indian Military Might</title>
			<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI --- Agni-V, the 5000-km range surface-to-surface Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, has catapulted India into an extremely select club of countries possessing such a deadly weapons platform. Agni-V gives India the much-needed muscle an...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:26:43 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Financial Crisis Cuts World Military Spending</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<i>Six of world's biggest military spenders have had to cut their defense budget last year as a result of the financial crisis, but Russia and China are seizing the opportunity to finally catch up. </i>


It wasn't quite a passion for arms reduction that was behind Brazil, Germany, France, the UK...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:18:47 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>The Reality of India’s Defence Procurement</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The past few months have seen considerable activity, and inneundos and accusations bandied back and forth, on a number of issues  between Army Headquarters—the Army Chief in particular—and India’s political leadership, including the Ministry of Defence (MoD). 

The latest are the charges on the pr...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:18:10 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Making Sense of DoD’s Budget Numbers</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Cost growth in the last year in DOD's acquisition system was $74 billion, 34 percent more than the $55 billion presumed to occur in the sequester in January; while the time frames are different (see discussion below), so much for Secretary of Defense Panetta's asinine rhetoric that sequester would b...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:41:36 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Why Budget Sequestration Is Likely</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<i>BB&T Capital Markets senior equity analyst and vice president Jeremy W. Devaney was one of the first observers to warn that budget sequestration would probably be implemented as mandated in last year's Budget Control Act. In this assessment for the Early Warning blog, Devanvey explains the politi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:27:03 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>F-35 Unit Cost Tops $200M  <i>(Updated)</i></title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- Previously estimated at nearly $160 million, the unit price of F-35 fighters ordered as part of the fifth Low-Rate Initial Production batch (LRIP Lot 5) has now passed <b>$200 million</b>, once additional contracts awarded by the Pentagon since our previous estimate on Dec. 9, 2011 are inc...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:02:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>A Five-Part Look at UAV Facts & Myths</title>
			<description><![CDATA[
If you have been following this series, you have seen the data on the MQ-9 Reaper's actual cost and performance, and you have had the opportunity to compare the data (much of it not previously reported) to the rhetoric from prominent defense experts that Reaper, and other drones, constitute a "rev...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:31:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>France Could Loan Rafales to Royal Navy</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The Anglo-French defense initiative announced last week did not mention bilateral cooperation on aircraft carriers because Britain still has to firm up its intentions in this field, according to France’s top weapons buyer.

Lauren Collet-Billon, head of the Direction Generale de l’Armeme...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:14:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Anglo-French UAV Plan Long on Ambition, Short on Funds</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The ambitious plan announced last week by Britain and France to jointly launch cooperation on unmanned aerial vehicles is unlikely to significantly change the current landscape of Europe’s UAV sector, sources say.

While in their Feb. 17 <a href="http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/uk-france...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Why Rafale Won in India</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- While many observers cite technology transfer, prices and performance as being major factors in India’s selection of the Rafale as its next-generation fighter, reality is very different even if these factors obviously did play a significant role.

In the same way that it is true that Raf...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:47:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>**Updated: In Defense of the Global Arms Trade</title>
			<description><![CDATA[On January 23, we published a critique of Andrew Feinstein's book, “The Shadow World: Inside The Global Arms Trade” by retired Lockheed Martin Senior Vice President Robert H. Trice. 

Author Feinstein responds below with a rebuttal to Trice’s critique. 

---------- 

I write in response to ret...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:02:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Lockheed Tries F-35C Damage Control</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- Having waited a month for the dust generated by the Pentagon’s Quick Look Report into the F-35 program to settle, Lockheed-Martin’s celebrated Tom Burbage was back in action this week, trying to downplay the seriousness of the problems with the F-35C’s tail hook.

During trials at Lakehu...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:40:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Op-Ed: A Last-Ditch Defense of the F-35</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will unveil the Pentagon’s new defense strategy. Whatever its merits, it is clear that the new strategy is driven not by substantive changes in the international security environment but by the shrinking U.S. defense budget. Whatever Panetta puts forward i...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:01:46 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Swiss Gripen Choice Queried</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Switzerland has chosen the Gripen fighter jet manufactured by Sweden’s Saab group to replace the Air Force’s fleet of US-made F5 Tigers. The decision, based on the recommendation of Defence Minister Ueli Maurer, has drawn fire in the Thursday newspapers.

One of the main criticisms is that the jet...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:20:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Panetta’s Rhetoric Not Stopping Pentagon Decay</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The suggestion that meaningful spending cuts are some sort of "doomsday" is just one of the myths Leon Panetta has been spreading around the country.  Another is that "the American military today is without question the finest fighting force that has ever existed."  

Despite piles of evidence to ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:25:33 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>A Close Look at Australia’s Sub Plans</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Australian Defence Department is in the midst of revolutionizing its submarine force with plans to replace its current fleet of six vessels with at least 12 new ones. This is the first submarine project for them in more than 20 years and mandates not only planning to build the new boats but also...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:46:39 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Overview: Japan’s Fighter Competition</title>
			<description><![CDATA[TOKYO --- Across the globe, defense industry players, military experts and potential adversaries are eagerly watching Japan's decision on its next mainstay fighter jet. 

While Japan is still in the final selection process for a state-of-the-art combat plane for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (J...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:32:38 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title><b>Updated</b> RAF: the Rotary-wing Air Force?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>Letter to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph by UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox</b>

SIR – You report (August 23) that the new Chinook helicopters ordered by the Ministry of Defence will be delivered too late to support troops in Afghanistan. This is not the case. 

Although commanders in Afghan...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:32:24 +0200</pubDate>
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