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Article: AIR FORCE, ARMY TO PURCHASE SMALL CARGO AIRCRAFT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 30, 2006
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The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release:
By Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez Air Force Print News
By 2010, both the Army and the Air Force may be flying the same aircraft to provide airlift inside places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Secretary of Defense hase given approval for the Army and the Air Force to work together to purchase those aircraft. The Army has been calling it a "Future Cargo Aircraft," while the Air Force calls it a "Light Cargo Aircraft." But ultimately, those names will be gone in favor of "Joint Cargo Aircraft." And it won't just be the name that is the same.
The Joint Cargo Aircraft will be a small aircraft developed for both the Army and the Air Force. It ...