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Parent topics

• Aerospace [r]: With the development of operations extending beyond the earth's atmosphere, a more general term than air warfare [e]
• Aircraft [r]: A vehicle capable of sustained flight within the Earth's atmosphere. [e]

Subtopics

Leadership

• Barbara Fast [r]: Now a vice-president for Boeing, a retired major general in U.S. Army intelligence [e]
• Charles Kupperman [r]: Member, Committee for the Present Danger; Vice President, Strategic Integration and Operations, Missile Defense Systems, The Boeing Company [e]
• Richard Hearney [r]: Founder RDM Strategies to help innovative companies applying defense technology; past presdent of Business Executives for National Security (BENS); vice president of Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group for the Boeing Company, having been part of the Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, where he was regional vice president of Business Development - Western Europe, and while in London, served as the company's senior representative in Europe; retired general, United States Marine Corps, who served as Assistant Commandant; advisor, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [e]

Acquisitions

• Northrop Grumman [r]: A large U.S. military and high-technology manufacturer [e]
• McDonnell Douglas [r]: Add brief definition or description

Aircraft

Current

• Airliner [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Boeing 737 [r]: Short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body jet airliner, originally developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from Boeing's 707 and 727. [e]
  • Boeing 747 [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Boeing 757 [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Boeing 767 [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Boeing 777 [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Boeing 787 [r]: Add brief definition or description

Bombers

• B-2 Spirit (bomber) [r]: U.S. long-range, low-observability "stealth" heavy bomber [e]

Military transports

• KC-135 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• C-40A Clipper [r]: Derived from the Boeing 737 commercial airliner, a utility transport aircraft used by the United States Navy [e]

C3I-ISR

• Electro-optical MASINT [r]: A subdiscipline of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), which has similarities to but complements imagery intelligence (IMINT); it does not form images, but validates them and produces information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the infrared, visible light, or ultraviolet spectra, where the value is knowledge of the type of energy detected [e]
  • RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: A United States Air Force aircraft for collecting measurement and signature intelligence, primarily on foreign missiles. A COBRA BALL aircraft can be converted to a RC-135 RIVET JOINT. [e]
• SIGINT aircraft-based platforms [r]: An aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that carries signals intelligence sensors [e]
  • RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: A long-range aircraft, operated by the United States Air Force, for collecting electronic intelligence [e]
  • RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: A United States Air Force long-range aircraft for collecting communications intelligence [e]
• Maritime Patrol Aircraft [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • P-8 Poseidon [r]: New maritime patrol aircraft, built on a Boeing 737 airframe for the United States Navy [e]

Fighters

• • F-15 Eagle [r]: A series of air superiority fighters, designed for the United States Air Force and flown by several countries; intended for the high role in the high-low mix; The F-15E Strike Eagle is a multirole fighter variant. [e]
  • F-15E Strike Eagle [r]: A variant of the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, which is optimized for all-weather attack on ground targets [e]

Historic

• Boeing 707 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Boeing 727 [r]: Add brief definition or description

Bombers

• B-17 Flying Fortress (bomber) [r]: A U.S. designed heavy bomber, with relatively light payload and moderate range, but excellent defenses and rugged construction, that was the primary U.S. daytime strategic bomber in the European Theater of the Second World War [e]
• B-29 [r]: Very heavy bomber, by Second World War standards, that carried out U.S. strategic bombing against Japan [e]
• B-47 Stratojet (bomber) [r]: A Cold War medium jet bomber used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command, whose range required it be based outside the U.S. to reach targets in the Soviet Union [e]
• B-52 [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 [e]

Other products

Legal and political

• Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. [r]: A civil lawsuit, filed against a Central Intelligence Agency contractor that supported the logistics of extraordinary rendition, which has been dismissed when the government invoked the state secrets privilege; appellate review was requested in late 2008 [e]

Facilities

• Wichita, Kansas [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Seattle, Washington [r]: City in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States; largest city in the U.S. state of Washington. [e]
• St. Louis, Missouri [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Air refueling [r]: Transferring fuel from one aircraft to another while both are in flight. [e]
• Cryptography controversy [r]: The "crypto wars", political controversies and legal cases involving the use of cryptography. [e]
• Fokker [r]: A Dutch airplane manufacturing company founded in 1912 by Anthony Fokker. [e]
• Littoral Surveillance Radar System [r]: An active electronically scanned array (AESA) surveillance radar, currently used on maritime patrol aircraft also used in littoral (military) and overland operation; the still highly classified system will go onto next-generation surveillance aircraft and provide targeting information to precision-guided munitions [e]