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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>In Defense of the Global Arms Trade</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<i>Retired Lockheed Martin Senior Vice President Robert H. Trice was so incensed by the errors he saw in recent accounts of the global arms trade that he wrote this rebuttal, describing the real situation <i>(as he sees it-Ed.)</i>. Trice spent much of his career at Lockheed Martin and other defense...]]></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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			<title>Russia Details Fighter Aircraft Plans</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The need and outlook for new aircraft in Russia's air force are better defined today, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Tuesday, the first day of the MAKS-2011 air show.

Fifth generation on the way

The air show opened Tuesday and has a large program including the f...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:58:13 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>DoD Cuts Spark Defense Budget Hysteria</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The rhetoric of people rushing to rescue Pentagon spending from “completely unacceptable” cuts is quite hysterical.  Leading the chorus has been Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.  He termed the possible defense budget cuts (about $850 billion over 10 years according to most) a “doomsday mechanism,”...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:01:05 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Shuttle’s Journey Took Us Nowhere</title>
			<description><![CDATA[So the party’s over. Yesterday at 10.56am BST, the Shuttle Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center, thus bringing to an end Nasa’s 30-year experiment in reusable spacecraft. “It’s been an incredible ride,” said Chris Ferguson, the pilot. He feigned optimism, but couldn’t explain what happens n...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:37:24 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Telemos Revives France’s UAV Wars</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have revived the latent French UAV wars by publicly renewing their offer to jointly develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft for their two governments as the deadline nears for France to decide how to meet another, more urgent sho...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:19:11 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>The Secret History of the War on IEDs</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country. That equipment – a radio-frequency jammer – was upgraded several times, and eve...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:28:21 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Talking Truth to Gates and the NYT</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- While US Defense Secretary Robert Gates certainly has a point about Europe’s insufficient defense spending, some of the <a href=" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/opinion/11sat1.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=gates&st=Search" target="_blank">assertions made by the New York Times</a> in the same vein ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:53:18 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>**France Readies Rafale Upgrade for 2012</title>
			<description><![CDATA[CAZAUX, France --- The French defense procurement agency, DGA, is carrying out the final development tests of an upgrade package for the Rafale combat aircraft, including an AESA radar and improved electronics, that should be ordered next year by the French ministry of defense.

The package, desig...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:35:03 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Rafale in Combat: “War for Dummies”</title>
			<description><![CDATA[RAFALETOWN, Corsica --- French air force Rafale combat aircraft deployed here as part of the UN-sanctioned Libyan No-Fly Zone are for the first time making full use of the aircraft’s “omnirole” capabilities, which allow a single aircraft to carry out the full gamut of missions during a single sortie...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:40:14 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Navy SEALs and Team Six Explained</title>
			<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama's meeting with some of the commandos who raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan and killed the Al-Qaeda leader has shined a rare public spotlight on one of America's most secret special operations forces.

Obama will reportedly greet members of Team Six on May 6 ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:35:46 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US-India Defense Ties post-MMRCA</title>
			<description><![CDATA[New Delhi’s decision to not consider the American F-16 and F-18 for its Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) might have been sound on technical grounds but it nevertheless has important political implications for India’s relations with the U.S. Most of the criticism of the decision has focused ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:42:01 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>India’s MMRCA On a Wing and a Prayer</title>
			<description><![CDATA[By Sanjaya Baru 


NEW DELHI --- Major and strategically important defence purchases have rarely, if ever, been purely technical decisions. In the 1950s, Jawaharlal Nehru made political choices in opting to seal deals with the British, the Americans and the French. Nehru’s and Indira Gandhi’s swi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:53:01 +0200</pubDate>
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