At the high-performance end of the market, Ferrari's F-150 Enzo-replacement, with a price tag well in excess of a million euros, will be challenged by McLaren's P1, which was first seen as a concept in Paris last September.
All of which allows Gary White, GM's head truck executive, to chuckle a little at Ford's F-Series war room.
Meanwhile, Ford's redesigned F-Series pickups are expected to compete strongly with the Tundra.
Pentagon sources say a U.S. F-16 shot down a Yugoslav MiG-29 on Monday night near the border between Bosnia and Serbia.
At altitude, its top speed is Mach 2.25 compared to Mach 2 for the U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon, another multirole fighter aircraft made by General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin.
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Joe Bakaj, an engineer at Ford, says that even American buyers of the company's F-150 pickups, who would normally scoff at anything with less than a V8 engine, are switching to a new V6 version that performs at least as well but drinks less fuel.
We were told, of course, that the optimal means of meeting Japan's air defense commitments in the 1990's -- namely, an off-the-shelf purchase of F-16's -- had been categorically rejected by the Japanese and that the FS-X deal was the best of the remaining options.
Ford?s line of F-series has been leading the pickup truck category in the U.S. for the last 30 years.
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This anxiety has most recently resulted in Tokyo's insistence on buying the F-22, America's premier fighter.
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It's also adding F-Series derivatives, like the upcoming FX2, a flashier truck for budget-conscious urban buyers.
Under Siilasmaa's leadership, F-Secure has created a wireless-security model that has attracted major players like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia.
The Houthis, as the rebels are known after the name of a leading clan in the remote and spectacularly rugged region, have survived the repeated assaults not just of Yemen's own modern army but also, in the latest campaign, heavy bombardment by the Saudi air force's Tornadoes and F-15 fighter aircraft.
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The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) assembly line.
Tracing the physical location of phishing sites that impersonated pages from U.K.-based Barclay and Halifax banks, F-secure's researchers found that they were hosted on the same Russian server used for distributing Storm in recent weeks.
And John Griffins, G-R-I-F-F-I-N-S. As well as a JAG attorney representing the military was also present.
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The White House expects a major battle with lawmakers from both parties over Defense Secretary Robert Gates's effort to overhaul defense-procurement policies and cut short production on the F-22 advanced fighter jet and the Army's Future Combat System.
The F-35 shouldn't cost as much as the F-22, and it's more versatile.
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Sales of Ford's bread-and-butter F-Series pickup have slipped 11% along with the market, chewing into profits.
Moreover, the US seems to be torpedoing Israel's acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
It controls half of the very profitable diesel pickup truck market in the U.S. with its F-Series Super Duty.
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Five minutes later, four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters from nearby Luke Air Force Base will conduct a fly-over in the "missing man" formation.
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First it's the roar of F-16 jets from a nearby NATO base, then a hailstorm, then torrential rains that change the color of the desert so that previous shots won't match new ones.
Further, Test and Evaluation officials discovered a handful of cracks on the right wing and right engine of the U.S. Air Force F-35A version, as well as multiple cracks on the bulkhead flange of the Marine short takeoff F-35B version.
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