Pentagon's flying raygun zips into budget battle
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ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Maryland  - "Peace Through Light." That's the slogan of a Boeing Co. jumbo jet built to zap ballistic missiles shortly after they lift off, using laser rayguns.
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Japan's Defence Ministry is seeking a budget to develop its own fighter jets, a report said on Wednesday, after the U.S. blocked foreign sales of Washington's most advanced stealth fighter for security reasons.
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Waltham defense contractor Raytheon Co. yesterday won a nearly $1 billion Navy contract that will take its combat systems for the new DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer from design into production.
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If Democrat John Kerry becomes president he could cut up to a third of the annual &#36;10 billion in spending on missile defenses, but overall defense expenditure would stay high, analysts said this week.
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A Pentagon spending spree aims to replace the vulnerable Humvee with more than 6,000 mine-resistant ambush-protection vehicles, or MRAPs, just as a stopgap. Then comes a different bruiser in 2012. In Danger Room.
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World's most expensive laser pointer, until '09 The Pentagon's astounding flying raygun programme has passed its penultimate technical milestone, according to makers Boeing.â¦
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 9--An Air Force contract worth $627.8 million should generate local  high-tech jobs and shows what was at stake in last year's military  base-closing process, a Dayton Development Coalition executive said Friday.
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The world's most expensive military project, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is due to take to the skies next week.
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The Pentagon is planning sharp cuts in  the Air Force's program for its new F/A-22 fighter jet in a  move budget analysts said was intended to offset mounting U.S.  deficits and the growing costs of the Iraq war, Wednesday's New  York Times reported.
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.
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Planemaker Boeing Co. expects Pentagon  budget cut proposals to hit its top defense programs, the head  of its military business said in a newspaper interview  published on Friday.
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The defense-related work is estimated to be worth $200 billion.
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The U.S. government is on its way to brokering about $20 billion in arms sales in the fiscal year that began October 1, steady with last year's near-record total, the Pentagon official responsible for such sales said on Monday.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N's F-35   Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, funded by the United States and   eight other countries, could cost as much as an extra $12   million to $16 million apiece at first if production plans are   curtailed in early years, the general running the project said   Friday.
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A US company has received more than $1bn in funding to build prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military.
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We'll see your $0.5bn, and raise you a laser jumbo Senators are planning to cut budgets for the space interceptor portion of the controversial US missile defence programme, according to reports. However, it appears that a complementary scheme to blast enemy ICBMs shortly after takeoff using a giant laser cannon mounted in a jumbo jet will be fully funded.â¦
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