The feisty 67-year-old partner of Semtek International, a small telecom company, has dedicated much of his life since the mid-1990s to a long-shot legal battle against two powerful foes: the Russian government and U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ).

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Navy intelligence, in the only publicly available Pentagon report on future threats to U.S. warplanes, finds that America's most likely foes--Iran, Iraq and North Korea--have only about 100 front-line warplanes among them.

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