China Builds A Different Kind Of Carrier Air Wing

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Strategy Page, Feb 8, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/articles/20110208.aspx

Note: Kamov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov
(Kamov is a Russian rotor-winged aircraft manufacturing company that was founded by Nikolai Il'yich Kamov; Founded 1929; Headquarters Moscow)


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(1) Nathan Hodge, Drone Will Call Aircraft Carriers Home; The Navy's X-47B, Built by Northrop Grumman, Won't Need to Be Operated From Land; Tailless Plane Passes Early Test.
Wall Street Journal, Feb 8, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703507804576130493035362556.html
("Capt. Jaime Engdahl, the Navy's program manager, said the most difficult part of a combat mission for Navy pilots was landing an aircraft back aboard ship. 'We're making that challenge with unmanned vehicles today,' he said")

(2) Christopher Drew, Ex-Dow Scientist Is Convicted of Selling Secrets in China. New York Times, Feb 8, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/business/global/08bribe.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=china%20convicted&st=cse

Note:
(a) Compared to "Wen LIU" in the NYT report, FBI web site names him as "Wen Chyu Liu, aka David W. Liou."
(b) HUANG Kexue  黄 科学

(3) Aviation Week and Space Technology in the combined issue Jan 24/31, 2011 has two interesting reports, neither of which is available free to non-subscribers.

(a) Graham Warwick, Unmanned Technology Advances.
(b) Top Technology to Watch.

The first item in (b)  is headlined Optionally Piloted Aircraft (about a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk that can be operated without a pilot onboard)   
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