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Journal Journal: Department of Defense Terminates Tanker Competition

Journal by LanceLungstrong on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @05:26PM

This morning the Department of Defense announced that it is terminating the current competition for the KC-X aerial refueling tanker program believing that the tanker solicitation and award could not be accomplished by January 2009. Secretary Gates decided that the best course of action is to provide the next Administration with full flexibility regarding the requirements, evaluation criteria and the appropriate allocation of defense budget to this mission.

Comment Re:Another "Shock-and-Awe" (Score 1) 280

by LanceLungstrong on Friday August 15, 2008 @01:48PM (#24618355) Attached to: How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water

I'd have to disagree, if they were trying to show aerospace dominance they would have gone with the plan they had 5 years ago where they wanted to send a bunker buster into the crater. Sadly that would have cost a good 500 million dollars. This project only even came to be because nasa didnt have any delta 2 rockets and the delta 4 rockets they did have had a lot of extra power that could be used.

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