That includes fighter jets and bombers spread out across air bases in the Middle East and nearby aircraft carriers.
Because the number of deployed Russian strategic ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers will drop dramatically simply as a result of their aging.
For the first time, the two sides will be obliged to dismantle warheads, not just the missiles and bombers that carry them.
In 1942 a squadron of fighters and bombers en route from Maine to England got lost in the clouds and crashed in Greenland.
But the reverse may hold good: if people are economically deprived or socially excluded, the pool of potential killers and bombers will grow.
Goodrich enlisted when he was just 18, and went into Afghanistan as an avionics technician servicing the AWACs planes that guide fighters and bombers.
The former component fitter on fighter planes and bombers says he now suffers from illnesses including respiratory problems, kidney defects, bowel conditions and painful joints.
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Its longstanding role as the leader in military space activities is thus paying dividends in helping to make fighters and bombers more relevant to ground campaigns.
The U.S. Air Force has invested over a hundred billion dollars in stealthy fighters and bombers since the Cold War ended, while gradually disbanding its jamming units.
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Last week, the Washington Times' Bill Gertz reported that in 2008 Chinese naval vessels and bombers temporarily blinded and repeatedly buzzed the crew of a U.S. Navy survey ship.
It is a sensible, incremental treaty that will cut America's and Russia's deployed strategic nuclear warheads by about a third, from the current maximum of 2, 200 to 1, 550, and the number of deployed missiles and bombers to 700 apiece.
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For this reason, all three legs of the Triad ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers retain their value for the same reason they did before, namely the synergy that provides flexibility to our leadership, that enhances survivability and that complicates defenses.
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For this reason, all three legs of the Triad -- ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers -- retain their value for the same reason they did before, namely the synergy that provides flexibility to our leadership, that enhances survivability and that complicates defenses.
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Russia is being rewarded for signing onto an arms control agreement they need much more than we do with far-reaching and ominous concessions (notably, deep cuts in the numbers of U.S. missiles and bombers and restrictions on our strategic conventional arms and missile defenses).
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) A third of the U.S. Air Force's active-duty force of combat planes including fighters and bombers will be grounded due to federal budget cuts, and only the units preparing to deploy to major operations, such as the war in Afghanistan, will remain mission-ready, a top general said Tuesday.
Furthermore, North Korea's announcement of a major new ballistic missile defense initiative, training runs by B52 and B2 bombers, and an updated US-ROK Combined Counter-Provocation Plan, which has nuclear implications, are worth keeping an eye on.
They watched in awe on live television as U.S. forces used cruise missiles, smart bombs and stealth bombers to inflict swift and devastating blows on enemy forces.
China is likely developing a new strategic bomber, and has recently revealed that it has a supersonic, air-launched, anti-ship missile called the YJ-12, that can be launched by its bombers and fighter-bombers.
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The videos mixed old appearances by bin Laden with slick graphics and suicide bombers' on-camera last wills and testaments.
Within a few years, the lab developed radar systems used for naval navigation, weather prediction, and the detection of bombers and U-boats.
The US flew nuclear-capable B2 and B52 bombers over the South as part of the drill, and has since deployed warships with missile defence systems to the region.
Missile silos and heavy bombers were destroyed or dismantled once in a ceremony attended by the American and Russian defense chiefs.
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He was in charge of terrorist activities in southern Punjab province and worked to recruit suicide bombers and facilitate suicide attacks, one of the officials said.
Iraq claimed that fighters and suicide bombers were arriving steadily from surrounding Arab countries.
Nor has Syria's army yet unleashed its full array of firepower, which could include helicopter gunships and jet bombers.
Routine abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel's security service, Shin Bet, did nothing to dissuade Palestinian fighters and suicide bombers.
The civilized world should also deal with political leaders who heap honor (and money) on the suicide bombers and their families.
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The same group claimed responsibility on Sunday for last week's assault with car bombs and suicide bombers that targeted the Iraqi Ministry of Justice.
So why are 1.5 billion people round the world branded as terrorists and suicide bombers because of the actions of a few?
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