The Launch Merger Inches Forward: Boeing and Lockheed Martin have a Federal Trade Commission-approved draft agreement that would permit the two companies to proceed with their plan to merge rocket launch services into a new venture, the United Launch Alliance. However, there are conditions. Both companies are reviewing the agreement provisions.
When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Dan Caine described the 150 aircraft used in Operation Absolute Resolve, the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he referenced many by name, including the F-35 and F-22 fighters and B-1 bomber. Not specified, however, were “remotely piloted drones,” among them a secretive aircraft spotted and photographed returning to Puerto…
