Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 1, 2011

A Marine Corps AV-8A Harrier, foreground, and a Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk, background, two of the historic aircraft that will be on display during the MCAS Miramar Air Show. — Howard Lipin

Marine Flying Entering Period Of Turbulence -- Sign On San Diego

The Corps faces budgetary pressures, need to overhaul fleet.

As the Marines celebrate a century of shared aviation history with the Navy at the annual air show in San Diego beginning today, they are also looking to the future amid a high-stakes overhaul of their fleet.

The upgrades to decades-old platforms Marines still operate today and the development or fielding of revolutionary new types of flying machines touch on everything from helicopters to fighter jets, drones and the tilt-rotor Osprey.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

F-35B JSF Sea Trials to Start Next Week
-- Defense Tech

Strategy Paper Points Out Inconvenient Truths About UK Defence -- Defpro

Testing of Initial European Missile Shield Elements Successful, Pentagon Says -- Global Security Newswire

The Next Phase of Iranian Naval Expansion -- Information Dissemination

Typhoons Subs for Scrap, Kuznetsov To Sail
-- Defense News

China Set to Launch Its Own Space Station; Mission: Unknown -- Danger Room

Taiwan air defense solid, general says -- UPI

Brazil fighter jet deal 'urgent': minister -- The Local

Fighter Wars -- Ares/Aviation Week

China, France pledge to deepen military ties -- Xinhuanet

British scientists invent new battlefield equipment using 'steel from tape' -- The Telegraph

Obama's Anti-Nuke Push Bogging Down: Experts -- Global Security Newswire

Missiles in a box
-- ELP

JAGM In Jeopardy Amid Budget Talks
-- Aviation Week

U.S. Navy explores longer submarine deployments -- Salt Lake Tribune

Special Forces to hold open house to mark completion of move -- NWF Daily News

Officials hope Air Force civilian job cuts won't hit area bases -- PNJ.com

Aulaqi is first hit for new drone base -- Washington Post

Pentagon seeks to improve transparency
-- CNN

Gay weddings can be performed by military chaplains, Pentagon says -- Washington Post

Defense Companies Must Do More Than Lobby Against Cuts
-- August Cole

The Pentagon's Cyberstrategy, One Year Later
-- William J. Lynn III, Foreign Affairs

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