A new Harris Poll shows that teenagers increasingly have lost confidence in a US victory in the war on terrorism or in the war in Iraq. The survey indicates that only 58 percent believe the US will win the war on terrorism, compared to 82 percent in 2001. Similarly, positive responses about a US victory in Iraq dropped to 38 percent from 83 percent. Americans teens also have shifted their views dramatically on whether the US will find and punish those responsible for 9/11, dropping from 79 percent who believed the US would succeed to only 47 percent today.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
