The Perfect Soldier: Special Operations, Commandos, and the Future of Us Warfare by James F. Dunnigan
More Books by James Dunnigan
|
Dirty Little Secrets
Warplanes, The Class of 2008
by James Dunnigan
December 2, 2007
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
The annual Pentagon budget battle is over and the aircraft crowd got most of what they wanted. Major purchases for 2008 include; 52 UH-60 transport helicopters, 44 UH-72 scout helicopters (a new aircraft model), 29 CH-47 heavy transport helicopters, 24 F-18E/F carrier based fighters, 18 EA-18G navy electronic warfare aircraft (a new model), 26 of the new V-22 tilt-wing transports, three E-2D radar aircraft, 2 MH-60S navy search and rescue helicopters and 2 MH-60R navy anti-submarine helicopters, 20 F-22A jet fighters; nine C-130J transports, 12 F-35 jet fighters (for testing and development), 24 Predator UAVs, 5 Global Hawk UAVs, and hundreds of smaller UAVs.
|
|
