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What's on board an EP-3E?
... required to meet worldwide commitments. The 12th aircraft, undergoing a P-3C to EP-3E conversion ... of the emergency landing by a Navy EP-3E surveillance plane at a Chinese air base is whether ... as an EP-3E "ARIES" (Airborne Reconnaissance Integrated Electronic Suite) II -- was forced to make
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EP-3E missile-telemetry secrets compromised?
... WASHINGTON -- If a U.S. negotiating team in China can't repossess a downed EP-3E plane ... -monitoring technology aboard the surveillance aircraft, defense experts say. The EP-3E Aries II ... of equipment in the Pentagon's arsenal. The $80 million aircraft, one of only a dozen or so owned
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Deal for crew releasealready made?
... of reduced military support to Taiwan. The U.S. hostages were aboard an EP-3E surveillance aircraft ... called into question why U.S. fighter coverage was not provided to the EP-3E spy plane after repeated ... instead of using satellite reconnaissance. Hackworth described the EP-3E as “obsolete
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Navy plane monitoring Chinese destroyer
... The U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance aircraft forced to land at a Chinese air base after being "bumped ... , of the type that collided with U.S. Navy EP-3E The source, which was not named ... by the newspaper, said after one of a pair of Chinese F-8 fighters collided with the EP-3E, the plane
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Spy flights near mainland suspended
... in the wake of an incident involving a U.S. Navy EP-3E and a Chinese fighter last week, sources told ... ," the source said. U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II surveillance plane. A Pentagon spokesman told WND ... in midair, causing the EP-3E to make an emergency landing at China's Hainan Island airbase
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Clinton kept lidon PLA jet threats
... . Shays is interested in human-rights issues there. But hopes of recovering intact the EP-3E spy plane ... into the U.S. military's top-secret signals-gathering technology. In such emergencies, the EP-3E crew ... sources say flight-path coordinates show the EP-3E plane was flying outside the internationally
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The real costs of EP-3 return
... The United States has already indirectly paid China millions of dollars for the return of the EP-3E ... million contract to Lockheed Martin, which designed and manufactured the EP-3E, to dismantle the spy
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Upping our recon game
... the lumbering EP-3E, especially since, for the past several months, the Chinese have been harassing our ... couldn't destroy during the hairy last 20 minutes of their flight, which they say was punctuated ... that a sea landing was impossible. Another reason past and present EP-3E crew members gave
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U.S. plane to beef up Beijing's force projection?
... China's acquisition of a U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II surveillance plane is likely to enhance Beijing's ... and gauge their motives," the report said. With the onboard systems contained in the EP-3E ... analysis said, quoting the Pentagon report. "Now, with the EP-3E, the Chinese may not be lagging as much
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Beijing's pilots decryU.S. tactics
... . Navy EP-3E a week ago. "In order to shake loose our shadowing, the American planes have created ... claims the lumbering EP-3E Aries II surveillance plane deliberately veered into one of two Chinese ... reported Wednesday that overseas sources said the remaining Chinese F-8 fighter fired near the EP-3E