A senior Defense Department spokesman dismissed Iranian-sourced
reports that a US military aircraft had been forced down in Iran.
The Iranian reports he has reviewed contradict themselves, Pentagon
spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters Tuesday.
In a major affirmation for EADS North America's Light Utility
Helicopter program, the US Navy has become a new military user of
the UH-72, with the service ordering five aircraft for use in pilot
training at the Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, MD.
The US Department of Defense has recognized Lockheed Martin's
F-22 Raptor as an exemplary program in Performance Based Logistics
(PBL), an innovative support approach that provides higher aircraft
readiness to war fighters and lower overall costs to taxpayers.
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