Page 39 - Fighter Plane News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And then served two tours in korea and then fought in vietnam, where his fighter plane was shot down. he spent ten days evading his captors, was fine finally caught and game john mccain's cellmate. and mccain credits bud day for saving his life and today credited him on the floor of the senate. >> to say he lived a full life would be quite an understatement. his was filled with so many extraordinary experiences, adventures, challenges, accomplishments, and with such love, compassion and courage, that it could have supplied enough experiences, excitement and satisfaction for ten lifetimes. >> t...

Carrier. they do things like standing watch and charting the ship's course and making meals in the galley. they work on something they call micromini repair. micromini repair. if something goes wrong with an electrical something onboard, they make the means up to fix it themselves. and for the last couple of years some of the sailors have been working on a brand new thing that no one has ever done before. it is this thing. the x-47b which is an experimental unmanned flying drone that is the size of a full-sized fighter jet. a navy team has been trying to invent essentially and perfect this air...

Guest in austin. republican michael mccall. comingman, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> eric: first question. look, they say they are going to hit austin. their missile can get maybe 2500 miles. some would say, why should we worry? >> they don't have that capability to get past, say, guam. we know that. the reason they talk about austin, samsung's here, the largest foreign south korean investment in the united states. but that capability is want there. however, they are very dangerous. in the sense that we have 28,000 soldiers in south korea. they can strike our allies like japan with this...

Powers here and if you had a national security situation with that -- with tremendous urgency along the lines of pearl harbor or 9/11, you could see a situation where the drone, like a fighter plane, like a very powerful gun could be used in the united states. it's just another weapon and the police have a lot of weapons in this country. >> and let me go back to chris lawrence for a inmaminute. there's no plans to target anyone in the united states or anyone for that matter, as far as you know? >> no. and as i read the attorney general's letter, it says that they have no plans on doing so. it ...

>> greta: any bidding, any competitive bidding. >> some of them are. >> greta: not all. >> not all, but by the way, once you get-- the problem once you get a contract for a fighter plane or a ship, then the escalation above the baseline sometimes is two or three times as much as what you originally budgeted for. the biggest problem in the dod in the years ahead is going to be acquisition reform. fix the system for buying stuff and that's probably going to be the greatest return on our investment that we could make particularly if you're trying to save over the long-term. short-term it's people...