He also said it was "sad" the government had axed plans for new Nimrod surveillance aircraft.
Further write-offs loom over two contracts, for Nimrod marine-surveillance aircraft and new Astute-class nuclear submarines.
The surveillance aircraft incident with china underscores the need for an explicit and firm U.S. policy toward the PRC.
Nearby RAF Kinloss will effectively close after ministers cancelled orders for the new Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft.
It was announced that RAF Kinloss would shut after ministers cancelled orders for the new Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft.
EP-3 surveillance aircraft with a Chinese fighter jet in April last year which caused the death of the Chinese pilot.
Surveillance aircraft were withdrawn two years ago after the accidental downing of a civilian plane over neighbouring Peru with the loss of two lives.
It was announced earlier this year that RAF Kinloss in Moray would shut after ministers cancelled orders for the new Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft.
The tendency in official Washington in the wake of incidents like Chinese interference with a U.S. military-surveillance aircraft is to try to "contain" the damage.
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U.S. defense experts played down the encounter on Tuesday between the U.S. and Iranian fighters, the latest confrontation involving American surveillance aircraft and the Iranian military.
The funds will provide, among other things, five new helicopters to increase mobility for the Mexican army and air force as well as new surveillance aircraft for the Mexican navy.
The Chinese military say that two of their East China Sea fleet fighter jets were scrambled to track an unnamed foreign surveillance aircraft on Sunday, according to China News Service.
At the very least the broadcasts allow a Karadzic or a smuggler to check before they step outside their front door whether any Nato surveillance aircraft are in the sky and what they are doing.
Military surveillance aircraft scoured the battlefield -- from the lowest-flying aircraft such as the Army's Hunter and the Marines' Pioneer, to the Predator, to the higher-flying Global Hawk and U-2 -- and on up to the information-gathering satellites.
Ostensibly, Beijing's decision to place its offering in the euro-dollar and euro-euro markets and possibly other non-U.S. locales was a response to an unfavorable climate created by Chinese aggressiveness resulting in the downing of an American E-P3 surveillance aircraft and holding its crew for eleven days.
Last year Ecuador's government ended the lease under which American AWACS and Orion aircraft flew surveillance missions to spot drug movement in the eastern Pacific from a base at Manta.
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Among BAE Systems' plans, for example, is the co-operative control of drones, which would allow a pilot in a jet to fly with a squadron of the robot aircraft on surveillance or combat missions.
"But a great deal of it concerns our most sensitive systems, including aircraft avionics, surveillance technologies, satellite communications systems, and network security protocols, " he said.
Japan is investing in the types of aircraft, warships and surveillance systems - like drones - to better defend its interests in the East China Sea.
The 330 military personnel comprise 200 soldiers going to West African nations, 40 military advisers to Mali, and 90 support crew for a C-17 transport aircraft and a Sentinel R1 surveillance plane.
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The future for Intelligence , Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) and strike aircraft is stealth, extreme range, and extended persistence on-station.
Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - Nato has struggled, at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of 25, 000 to 40, 000 troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets such as helicopters, transport aircraft, maintenance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and much more.
Consideration also should be given to leasing C-12 twin-engine aircraft outfitted for maritime patrol and counterinsurgency surveillance.
Swedish aircraft carried out a lot of airborne surveillance but couldn't upload the material into NATO's intelligence systems.
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In keeping with the strategic concept we agreed to in Lisbon and in order to fulfill our Article Five commitment to our collective security, we agreed to acquire a fleet of remotely piloted aircraft, drones, to strengthen intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Britain has also started to put these principles into practice, by pledging to buy aircraft-carriers, giant transport aircraft, and sophisticated air-to-ground surveillance systems.
Urge Taiwan to invest in a series of unmanned aircraft for several purposes, to include high-altitude surveillance and communication nodes, and medium range precision attack.
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They warn that national security will be dangerously exposed without the aircraft, which would have continued to provide long-range reconnaissance and surveillance, and protect the Royal Navy's Trident submarines.
U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups, it said, are becoming "increasingly vulnerable" to Chinese surveillance and weaponry up to 1, 200 nautical miles from China's coast.
Backers hope they will prove a cheaper alternative to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for tasks as varied as power and pipeline inspection, mapping, security, border surveillance, research, filming, fire fighting, search and rescue and delivering supplies.
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