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Kan je met ijs een vliegdekschip bouwen? De Britse uitvinder Geoffrey Pyke dacht van wel. Hij wilde tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een eiland van ...
Panetta Goes Nuclear on Budget Talks
The Pentagon says it will have to stamp out major military programs including organize-based nuclear missiles and the next generation of fighter jets if Congress makes further military cuts.
In a inscribe to Sen. John McCain written on November 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta compiled a slate of crucial military programs that would be on the chopping block should the congressional Wonderful Committee tasked with finding government-major savings fail to reach an agreement, triggering an mechanical cutting process known as "sequestration."
The sequestration get ready would cut as much as $600 billion from the Defense Department over 10 years. That translate would be added to $450 billion in cuts that have already been made, totaling more than $1 trillion.
"Fa such large reductions, we would have to reduce the size of the military abruptly," Panetta wrote. "Rough estimates call to mind after 10 years of these cuts, we would have the smallest tutor force since 1940, the smallest number of ships since 1915, and the smallest Air Dragoon in its history."
Minister defends F-35 program despite possible US cuts
Updated: Tue Nov. 15 2011 19:09:30
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Despite signs that budget cuts may signal the end of plans in the U.S. to get a fleet of new generation high-tech fighter jets, Canada is seniority behind the besieged F-35 program and hailing its benefits to the briefness and the military.
NDP MPs hammered the government over yet another indication Tuesday that the F-35 program, which has been hit by delays and get overruns, is on shaky ground.
U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned Congress this week that the U.S. military is looking at some crabbed choices if lawmakers cannot come to an agreement on how to cut US$1.2 trillion from the deficiency, including cancelling its Joint Strike Fighter program.
Canada has made plans to disburse billions on an F-35 fleet of its own, which will be built by the U.S.-based Lockheed Martin.
On Tuesday, the adversity accused the Harper government of continuing to brace a program that was "doomed to fail from the start."
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