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...The US military has 450 F-35s — variants are used by the air force, navy and Marine Corps — and the Pentagon plans to buy roughly 2,000 more by the mid-2040s, costing $1.7tn over the programme’s life cycle...
...Marine and energy asset owner Atlas Corp has accepted an $11bn take-private offer from Poseidon Acquisition Corp, the investment vehicle backed by Atlas’s chair David Sokol....
...Within the span of his first three months, he witnessed the shooting down of a Korean civil aircraft by Soviet jets, the bombing of a US marines barracks in Beirut, with the loss of 241 lives, and the US...
...(FT) Veterans head for politics frontline Marine Corps veteran Dan Ward is one of many veterans hoping to win congressional seats in the November midterm elections....
...Lockheed Martin of the US, for example, is the world’s biggest military contractor in part because the US government decided to supply its air force, navy and marines with variants of a single fighter aircraft...
...centre were working on a $100m project to allow the US Marine Corp to use a specially designed app to summon an airdrop of essential supplies, via a full-sized helicopter that has been converted into a...
...Rolls-Royce, the turbine and engine maker, has signed a contract worth up to $598m to supply engines for the US Marine Corps and Air Force’s V-22 tilt rotor aircraft....
...At the end of April, the company signed a contract worth as much as $598m to supply engines for the US Marine Corps and Air Force’s V-22 tilt rotor aircraft....
...Rescued from years of not making any significant progress is the civilian tiltrotor, a smaller version of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey flown by the US marines and air force....
...The US Supreme Court is to decide whether the largest class action employment lawsuit in US history can proceed against Walmart, the discount retailer, in a case that is being closely watched by other large...
...The military version at least is not that difficult to fly – when I flew the simulator last year at a US Marine Corps air base in North Carolina, I mainly called on my rotary rather than fixed-wing experience...
...Marine Ospreys have been deployed in Afghanistan since November 2009, says Lt Col Robert Freeland, medium-lift requirements officer at Marine Corps headquarters and a V-22 pilot himself....
...“I’ve got a civilian commercial licence to fly any ‘powered lift’ aircraft,” says Lt Col Romin Dasmalchi, commanding officer of the US Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron known as the Fighting Griffins....
...Having just written the Army/ Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, General David Petraeus was sent to Iraq, along with five additional brigades of troops....
...Harich is a lawyer and a former marine from Louisiana who until recently worked as a policy adviser to the governor of West Virginia. He now represents the US State Department in Arghandab....
...Its first deployment in Iraq was free of significant problems, says Mr Kenney, a former Marine helicopter pilot. The V-22 Osprey showed the advantages of its speed, range and noise signature....
...Office Depot, one of the largest US office suppliers, offers a similar range of online goods....
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that sponsors the US national football team, is also backing Univision’s match coverage, along with McNeil’s Tylenol and Allstate Insurance....
...Next week: Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot...
...The memorandum would also allow for the joint construction of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, product terminals and depots, the establishment of a bitumen business, supply of oil products, marine fuels...
...This seems unlikely, given Home Depot's $89bn market cap. IV. Mr Buffett is bullish on the housing market. He was a timely investor in housing-related retailers five years ago. V....
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. High hopes Could it be third time lucky for King Win Laurel?...
...And now they’re meeting those challenges as officers in the United States Navy and Marine Corps....
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