On Wednesday night outside the southern town of Hanunis, a missile from an Israeli fighter jet missed its target - militants traveling in a car - and instead slammed into a nearby house.
Initially, Russia hoped to sign a contract to deliver its T-50 fighter plane to India, but in the end India insisted on the joint development of a new aircraft, based on the T-50 but with modifications for the Indian Air Force.
They point out that the Pentagon conceived the F-22, its superstealthy fighter, more than a decade ago to counter two 21st century Soviet warplanes then on the drawing boards.
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While it has no immediate prospect of addressing its relative weakness in fighter aircraft, it is keen to boost its role as a provider of the clever electronics that they need.
Beijing recently launched its first aircraft carrier and tested a stealth jet fighter that appears to be more advanced than US defence executives had expected.
The sprawling aerospace company forged from the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967 saw its carrier-based A-12 bomber canceled in January, and then lost the competition to build a successor to its signature F-15 fighter three months later.
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During his two-day visit to Israel, Hagel was expected to further discuss a U.S. arms deal that would provide Israel with missiles for its fighter aircraft, plus KC-135 refueling planes that could be used in a long-range strike on a country such as Iran, as well as V-22 Osprey transport planes.
Some 200 of these have gone ashore to assist the Nigerians, and America has made a great show of its might this month with fighter planes swooping over Monrovia.
Nor can its development of a new strategic bomber and a fifth-generation fighter.
Having fought its neighbors for centuries, Japan knows that the only real friend it has is America, so picking the plane likely to dominate U.S. tactical air forces in the future as its own top-of-the-line fighter was a logical step.
This year, China has passed several milestones in developing military technology that could be used in these areas: It conducted the first test flight of a stealth fighter prototype in January and began sea trials of its first aircraft carrier in August.
The price-tag of a legacy fighter may appear to be lower, but if it is less likely to survive combat, or its survival depends on support from electronic jammers and other helpers that a stealthy fighter does not need, then in the end the plane with the higher price-tag may turn out to be cheaper.
Air Force F-15E fighter jets will launch the new weapon, which would find its target either by a laser or satellite guidance system.
The president said a productive relationship with China was still possible, even if that country held onto a Navy reconnaissance plane that has been held there since April 1, when its pilot made an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet.
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The ECB has been trying to chart a middle course between slow- and fast-growing countries while establishing its credibility as an inflation-fighter.
Japan's foreign ministry said two Russian Su-27s violated airspace for just over a minute Thursday near its northernmost main island of Hokkaido, and that Japan then scrambled four F-2 fighter jets.
But the Navy seems less committed to its version of the new fighter than the Air Force and Marine Corps are to theirs, so Boeing has launched a campaign to offer the sea service a cheaper alternative.
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