Pentagon Can't Overcome Its Russian Engines Addiction: McCain Washington DC (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2016 - Despite John McCain's profound displeasure, US defense officials are not inclined to abandon the RD-180 Russian rocket engines until 2021 or 2022 earliest. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the United States Air Force has become one of Russia's longstanding customers: for years the Pentagon was buying the RD-180 Russian rocket engines to put its satellites into space. However, after t ... more

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