Russia’s Air Force will get two new Su-34 bombers in 2006, according to Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov, the chief of the Russian Air Force. One of the bombers is in an assembly hall and is nearly ready and the other likely will be ready by September, RIA Novosti news service reports.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth foot-stomped the Pentagon's push for acquisition speed and contractor accountability in a Jan. 12 speech at Lockheed Martin’s production hub in Fort Worth, Texas—the heart of the department’s biggest acquisition program, the F-35.
