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Compact Kinetic Energy Missile Performs Well In Final Flight Test Dallas TX (SPX) Feb 21, 2007 
The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin has conducted a successful flight test of the Compact Kinetic Energy Missile (CKEM) against a T-72 tank recently at Eglin Air Force Base, FL. All objectives for this test were achieved. The T-72, equipped with Enhanced Reactive Armor, was engaged at a range of 3400 meters. The flight evaluated CKEM's lethality while also gathering missile guidance and performance data. This was the last scheduled launch under the current CKEM Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD), and was conducted with the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center.
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Russia Makes Moves To Revive Army
Moscow (UPI) Feb 15, 2007As everyone knows, the level of technical equipment determines the army's combat readiness. Until now, Russia's limited resources prevented it from overhauling military equipment, most of which was developed over 20 years ago. However, the situation has been gradually improving, and increased defense spending has largely facilitated Moscow's efforts to supply its Armed Forces with modern weaponry and equipment. Tax Official Put In Charge Of Defense Ministry 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2007Vladimir Putin has always been famous for his ability to make unexpected personnel changes. Although sources on Sergei Ivanov's staff had hinted that their boss would be promoted soon, nobody could venture to predict how high he would be moved. Some said he was ready for prime minister, a post that could pave his way to the president's chair. Marines Debate New Infantry Plan 
Washington (UPI) Feb 21, 2007For some years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been playing with a concept called "Distributed Operations." On January 11, it issued a short paper over the signature of Lt. Gen. J.F. Amos, the grandiloquently titled "Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration" (I can remember when Marines would have choked on a title like that) which defines and explains the concept. Well, sort of. |
No Sign Of Compromise In Iranian Nuclear Crisis As UN Deadline Looms
Vienna (AFP) Feb 20, 2007A UN deadline for Iran to halt nuclear enrichment loomed large Tuesday, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refusing to bow to pressure amid talks in Vienna aimed at defusing the crisis. On the eve of the deadline's expiry on Wednesday, a defiant Ahmadinejad told a rally in the northern Iranian province of Gilan that Iran would only offer to halt uranium enrichment if other nuclear powers agreed to do the same. Iran War Games As US Carrier Moves Into Gulf 
Tehran (AFP) Feb 20, 2007Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday staged a war game simulating an enemy air strike as a second nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in regional waters in a warning to Tehran. South Korean Spy Agency Says North Korea Has Secret Nuke Program 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 20, 2007South Korea's intelligence chief was quoted as saying Tuesday that he believes North Korea has a secret uranium enrichment programme, in addition to its plutonium-based nuclear weapons project. "We believe (the programme) exists," Kim Man-Bok, the head of the National Intelligence Service, told a closed-door parliamentary committee. |
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Musharraf Muses On Afghanistan
Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2007The way Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf reads the geopolitical tea leaves in the Middle East and South Asia is not to our liking, but hardly surprising. Political science 101 shows a US Congress, controlled by the Democrats, not prepared to see the Iraq conflict through to victory - or so the thinking goes. Killerbee UAV Flies At Camp Pendleton 
San Clemente CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2007Swift Engineering has demonstrated its blended-wing KillerBee 3 (KB3) on February 17th at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California. Flying in support of Northrop-Grumman's Electronic Systems' Beyond Line-of-Sight Tactical UAV Communications Relay (BTCR) program in an Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored demonstration. Simultaneously an EPLAR and Motorola's Meshnet network relays were demonstrated. ViaSat Receives MIDS Tactical Network Terminal Order From Taiwan 
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2007ViaSat has been awarded an order valued at more than $12 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System terminals for the government of Taiwan. This award is for more than 70 LVT configuration terminals plus spares under the Foreign Military Sales Program through the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. |
US Missile Defence Plans Open Old Wounds In Eastern Europe
Prague (AFP) Feb 20, 2007Poland and the Czech Republic lashed out at Russian "intimidation" Tuesday after Moscow threatened to place the countries on its missile target list if they agreed to host a US missile defence system. "It is clearly an attempt to intimidate," Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on public radio in response to the Russian threat. Facing Iraq Realities 
Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2007There is a common thread of hubris between the involvement of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and the United States in Iraq. If the United States does not acknowledge this fundamental point, not only in its intervention in Iraq doomed: It may well be anyway. In 1966 U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., talked about the arrogance of power with respect to the war in Vietnam. Iraq Is No Vietnam 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2007U.S. allies and their opponents, American Congressmen and terrorist leaders, professional politicians and ordinary people, journalists and generals are increasingly comparing the war in Iraq with Vietnam. They are all in the wrong. Iraq is not Vietnam. The situation in Iraq is much worse, and the majority of parallels with the Vietnam war do not apply. |
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