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Is The World In For A New Cold Age
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2007Today's strategic balance is an expression of the quantitative and qualitative alignment of forces with due account of the factors determining the strategic situation. Its parameters form a sophisticated dynamic system; nuclear, primarily strategic weapons are one of its elements. But the general condition of this system largely depends on its other elements. Thus, there is an inseparable ... more GAO Tips The Scales On ABM 
Washington (UPI) June 01, 2007A recent upbeat GAO assessment of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's record in Fiscal Year 2006 may have influenced Democratic lawmakers in Congress to back the program. "Over the next five years the Missile Defense Agency expects to invest $49 billion in the Ballistic Missile Defense system's development and fielding. MDA's strategy is to field new capabilities in two-year blocks," said the Marc ... more US Wants Insurgent Ceasefire Agreements As Congress Sets New Benchmarks 
Washington (UPI) June 01, 2007The U.S. military's battalion and company commanders in Iraq have been given approval to try to negotiate cease-fires with insurgent groups and tribal leaders, a top U.S. general said. The effort is part of a broader attempt to reconcile Iraq's increasingly divided population with each other and their still-struggling central government, said Lt Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of Multinational C ... more QinetiQ's Polarisation Technology Results In GBP800K Contract For Further Research Into Tripwire Detection 
London UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2007QinetiQ has won an 18 month contract worth over pound800,000 from the Mobility IPT, under the FATS framework, to undertake further research into polarisation technology, particularly for man-portable devices, to assist land forces in the dismounted detection of trip and command wires to explosive devices. Trip and command wires are frequently found on conventional munitions, mines and many ... more Russia's Aborted Star Wars 
Moscow (RIA Novosti ) Jun 04, 2007In the summer of 1957, the Soviet Union performed its first successful launch of Sergei Korolyov's R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and in the fall the Earth received its first man-made satellite. But during that year the military primarily concentrated on launching a new fundamental anti-satellite project and developing an anti-missile defense. For purely technical reasons, the f ... more |
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Washington (UPI) June 01, 2007Multinational businesses -- desperate to solve their public image crisis -- used to be content to simply shell out donations. Now, they want a share of the action, executives from some of the world's largest companies said Friday. Corporate giving "has always been based on the private partner owing something," said John Damonti, head of corporate giving at drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb. ... more GE's Jenbacher Engine Powers Commercial Landfill Gas Conversion Plant Supplying Fuel For Public Vehicles 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 04, 2007A GE Energy ecomagination-certified Jenbacher landfill gas engine is powering the world's first commercial landfill gas (LFG)-to-liquid natural gas (LNG) conversion facility designed to create alternative fuel for vehicles. The LNG produced at the new facility is primarily targeted to be used as fuel for mass transit and other large vehicle fleets in the Los Angeles, Calif. region. Accordi ... more Airline Sector Puts Global Warming High On Meeting Agenda 
New York (AFP) June 02, 2007The world's airline industry opens its annual meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver Sunday with the link between increased air traffic and global warming front and center on its radar screen. "This year, one of the top issues is going to be the environment," said Anthony Concil, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association. IATA represents some 250 airlines, or 94 percent of sch ... more GE Unit To Double Renewable Energy Investing And Disclose Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
Universal City CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2007GE Energy Financial Services has announced that it would double its renewable energy investments by 2010, and has become one of the first financial institutions to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions from its power plant equity investments. "We are taking these steps because 'green is green' -- good for the environment and for business -- not only for GE's manufacturing but its financial ... more China Launches Communications Satellite SinoSat-3 
Xichang, China (SPX) Jun 01, 2007China on early Friday morning launched "SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of its Long March series. The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwest Sichuan province at 0:08 a.m. (Beijing Time), separated from the rocket about 24 minutes after lift-off, bef ... more |
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Prague (AFP) May 31, 2007Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek Thursday described his country's participation in a US anti-missile shield as "a question of national courage". "It is a question of national courage and of responsability towards our allies' defence," he said during a conference organised by the Czech foreign ministry. Regarding Moscow's repeated warnings over the deployment of a tracking radar in the ... more Russian Space Forces Set To Receive New Missiles 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 01, 2007Russian will soon put into service the new missiles that were test-fired earlier this week, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov pledged Thursday. "The tests were successful and that means that Russia's army will very shortly get the Iskander complex already equipped with a high-precision missile which can be used for surgical long-range strikes," Ivanov said as quoted by the Interfax news agency. ... more Nuclear Aid Issues Overshadow Korean Talks 
Seoul (AFP) May 31, 2007High-level inter-Korean reconciliation talks soured Thursday when the North protested at the South's delay in delivering its promised rice aid. The four-day ministerial talks are aimed at discussing joint projects to ease tensions. But they hit a snag over Seoul's insistence in withholding aid until Pyongyang starts shutting down its nuclear programme. The North's chief delegate Kwon Ho-Un ... more Raytheon Delivers First Joint Standoff Weapon Block II 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 01, 2007Raytheon has delivered its first Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) Block II -- a new variant offering significantly lower unit costs and an additional payload option. "This delivery is the culmination of an effort that began three years ago to significantly reduce the cost of this weapon," said John O'Brien, Raytheon's JSOW Block II program director. "This achievement represents many long hours and ... more MQ-8B Fire Scout To Enter Production 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2007The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical takeoff and landing Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (VTUAV) has reached Milestone C, signifying the beginning of its low-rate initial production phase. The Fire Scout is the first unmanned aircraft system (UAS) within the U.S. Navy and the third UAS of all U.S. military branches to meet Milestone C in th ... more
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