Military Navy News Center http://www.military.com/News/Home/0,13324,,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS Military Navy News Center Wednesday, 10 February 2010 7:37:27 AM Major Work Ahead on Russian Stealth Fighter http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,210368,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS Russia has begun flying a stealthy fifth-generation fighter to rival the U.S. F-22, but Western analysts question whether Sukhoi can develop and deliver the aircraft by 2015 as promised. 2010-02-08 MV-22 and ABV Meet Expectations http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,210215,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS While CH-53 helicopters were unloading Marines in the Now Zad valley in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on Dec. 4, history was being made a short distance away. Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft were disgorging Marines from the reconnaissance unit Task Force Raider in three landing zones at the opposite end of the valley, kicking off an assault on the Now Zad area to eliminate Taliban influence. 2010-02-05 Despite Heron Deal, Turkey and Israel at Odds http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,210185,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS Amid a deteriorating relationship between Ankara and Jerusalem, the long-delayed sale of Israeli Heron unmanned air vehicles to Turkey is finally getting underway. 2010-02-04 Costs Haunt F-35; DoD Tossing Leadership http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,209986,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS The program is to get new leadership and Lockheed Martin is to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars in award fees, but U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates is "not sure" whether the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter can avoid breaching Nunn-McCurdy limits on cost growth. 2010-02-01 Corpsman Provides Care to Newborn http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-news/corpsman-provides-care-to-newborn.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS 2010-01-25 Checking First LES of the Year a Must http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-news/checking-first-les-of-the-year-a-must.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS 2010-01-25 NMCB Four Hits Afghanistan http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-news/nmcb-four-hits-afghanistan.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS 2010-01-25 Joint Strike Fighter on the Defensive http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,208617,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS After a year of broken promises, blown deadlines, and a failure to make progress in flight testing that not even the harshest critics predicted, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is on the defensive. 2010-01-06 Costly Agent Orange-Heart Disease Link Looms http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,208380,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS The cost of war -- on veteran's-- health and taxpayer wallets -- will loom a little larger in the new year when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issues a final rule to claim adjudicators to presume three more diseases of Vietnam veterans, including heart disease, were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. 2010-01-05 Interstate Rivalry in Carrier Battle Revived http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,208329,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS Virginia Sen. Jim Webb (D), a former Navy secretary and Marine combat veteran, is raising new objections over the Navy's proposal to home-port a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Mayport, Fla. Webb wrote Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn last month asking him to address such concerns before the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) completes its assessment of the Navy's proposal. 2009-12-30