London Times May 17, 2004 Overweight Carrier Fighters Give MoD £10bn Headache By Michael Evans, Defence Editor THE Ministry of Defence is facing another procurement disaster after a minister disclosed that the fighter jet planned for two new large aircraft carriers is far too heavy. Adam Ingram,...

Schmidt wins Maj. Harry Schmidt has won a key pretrial battle as the Air Force is about to court-martial him in connection with the mistaken bombing deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces this week overruled the decision of the trial...

I am looking for web sites ont he RAF in WWII. One is http://www.rafweb.org/ Are there others? Thanks Mike

Chinese Military Power - U.S. report http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/d20040528PRC.pdf

Comrade's casualty abroad means grim duty at home With 800 U.S. troops killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, military personnel stationed at home face a challenging mission: notifying next of kin when a death occurs, and helping families cope with the loss. at...

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) at http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20040527-110406-7882r.htm

Radar sale to China stopped The Bush administration blocked the sale of an advanced radar system to China and might purchase at least one of the stealth aircraft-detecting systems to offset the loss, U.S. and European officials said. at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040525-113028-4180r.htm

Religion in the U.S. Military total members on active duty: 1,399,751 Protestants 586569 Catholics 306859 Mormons 16103 Muslims 4154 Jews 3781 Buddhists 3339 Atheists 2432

UNCOMMON VALOR, COMMON VIRTUE World War II Memorial: Special Commemorative Section When a mighty struggle rocked the earth A message from Wesley Pruden, editor in chief of The Times at http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20040521-061127-5806r.htm SACRIFICE IS HONORED: Memorial a lasting tribute...

Does China have long range bombers at this time that can reach the continental United States? Although they have nuclear bombs, what about the planes to deliver them? I know China had some TU-16 planes years ago, but did they ever develop long range bombers or get any from the former Soviet...

Photo of Kerry with Fonda enrages Vietnam veterans A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans who say his association with her 34 years ago is a slap in the faces of Vietnam War...

System Failure Is Blamed In U.S. Downing Of British Jet The plane, hit near the Iraq-Kuwait border last year, could not identify itself as friendly, a report says. By Associated Press LONDON -- A British military jet shot down by a U.S. missile during the Iraq war was hit after a failure of the...

Navy probes crashes of 4 jets Four Navy fighter jets have crashed during training missions in the United States in the past seven days in what the Navy is investigating as a sudden series of unrelated "mishaps." at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040330-105406-6209r.htm

A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION. Authors: Rogers, Rodney1,2 Source: Air Power History; Winter 2003, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p46, 10p People: MOSOLOV, Georgi K. Abstract: The article focuses on chief test pilot for the MiG Georgi K. Mosolov. Mosolov was born in Ukraine and was enlisted in the Soviet army at the...

Friendly fire Supporters of Maj. Harry Schmidt, whom the Air Force is court-martialing for dropping a bomb on friendly Canadian troops in Afghanistan, ask this question: Why hasn't the military filed such serious charges against other pilots in a series of "friendly fire" deaths in Iraq and...

"CV-22: Impacts of Performance on Cost Effectiveness" http://newsobserver.com/collections/osprey/osprey.pdf

Tactical Aircraft: Changing Conditions Drive Need for New F/A-22 Business Case. GAO-04-391, March 15 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04391.pdf

"Ballistic Missile Defense Technical Studies Series: Missile Defense for the 21st Century" by Gregory H. Canavan at http://www.heritage.org/Research/MissileDefense/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=56486

Airship to keep eye on Mideast Israel has begun development of a 200-yard-long airship that would remain stationed at almost 70,000 feet above Earth for years and permit tracking of aircraft and missile firings as far as 600 miles away, a distance covering most of the Arab world. at...

from Navy Times of February 23, 2004 p.32 "Cockpit errors, op tempo cited as air-mishaps cause" Aviation mishaps, 1980-2003. the number of Class A aircraft mishaps - those involving loss of life or more than $1 million in damage - dropped from 1980 to 2001 but spiked over the past two years of the...