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Putin Missile Shield Proposal Intensifies Tug-Of-War
Moscow (AFP) Jun 08, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to share a radar station in Azerbaijan with the United States for missile defence is aimed at wresting back the initiative in a strategic tug-of-war, analysts said Friday. Putin's proposal at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany on Thursday reflected a very different view of global security from Washington's and one that showed increasing wariness of ... more Iran To Retaliate If Attacked From US bases In Gulf Iranian Parliament Warns 
Kuwait City (AFP) June 10, 2007Iran warned on Sunday that it would strike US military bases in neighbouring Gulf states if they were used as staging posts to attack the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme. "We rule out the possibility that our neighbours... will allow the United States to use their territory in attacking Iran," Iranian parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel told reporters during an official visit to ... more US Planning For Smaller Long-Term Presence In Iraq As DoD Chief Replaced 
Washington (AFP) Jun 10, 2007The White House Sunday backed an eventual withdrawal of most US troops from Iraq after a report said detailed plans are afoot to retain a smaller military presence in the war-torn country for years. The Washington Post said US military officials are in early planning for a "sharp drawdown" of troops beginning by the middle of next year. President George W. Bush's spokesman, Tony Snow, decl ... more U-Tacs To Provide ISTAR Capability For UK Armed Forces 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 11, 2007The Elbit and Thales joint venture - UAV Tactical Systems Ltd. (U-TacS) - has been awarded a contract worth approximately $110 million by Thales UK to provide an urgent intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) support capability for the UK Armed Forces. The program, will commence immediately and will take place over the next few years. The contract includes ... more Saving Robots To Save Battlefield Lives 
Baghdad, Iraq (AFNS) Jun 11, 2007One arm and a visceral cavity, wide open with its contents scattered about, is the cost of saving Soldiers' lives. But the brain is intact. Despite the destruction, the remotely operated vehicle can be rebuilt and salvaged by Camp Victory's Joint Robotics Repair Facility. This is an all-volunteer workshop that keeps warfighters safe by ensuring the first line of contact with insurgents and their ... more |
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Tromsoe, Norway (AFP) Jun 08, 2007Climate change is expected to have disastrous consequences for Earth but some areas will profit, notably wealthy nations in the northern parts of Europe, Russia and the US, scientists say. On Thursday the leaders of the Group of Eight club of wealthy nations agreed to pursue substantial cuts to greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and said they would seriously consider halving emis ... more Hawaii Geothermal Energy Is Clean, Stable And Always Available 
Honolulu KI (SPX) Jun 11, 2007For just short of 15 years, Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) has supplied clean, safe and sustainable electrical energy -- and energy diversification -- to Hawaii Island, the Big Island of the chain. Puna Geothermal is provider of about 20 percent of the electricity for the island's businesses and residents. At Puna Geothermal, state-of-the-art technology taps the vast underground cauldron of ... more New Screening Method To Help Find Better Biofuel Crops 
Ames IA (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Skyrocketing gasoline prices and growing concern over global warming has spawned massive growth of the biofuel industry, particularly ethanol production. While corn has been the major raw material for producing ethanol, producers are looking for other more cost effective and sustainable crops and researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are looking at a novel way to help t ... more A Step Nearer To Understanding Superconductivity 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Transporting energy without any loss, travelling in magnetically levitated trains, carrying out medical imaging (MRI) with small-scale equipment: all these things could come true if we had superconducting materials that worked at room temperature. Today, researchers at CNRS have taken another step forward on the road leading to this ultimate goal. They have revealed the metallic nature of a clas ... more Robots Could Fetch Injured Soldiers From Battlefield 
Washington (UPI) Jun 08, 2007U.S. researchers are developing a remote-controlled robot designed to rescue injured or abducted soldiers without putting their comrades at risk. The prototype of the nearly 6-foot-tall Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, called Bear, can lift nearly 300 pounds with one arm, and its developer, Vecna Technologies of College Park, Md., is focusing on improving its two-legged lower body. Tra ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Jun 07, 2007North Korea on Thursday test-fired two short-range missiles, less than two weeks after its previous launch, the South Korean military said. The communist state fired two missiles into the Yellow Sea, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP. They are believed to be ground-to-ship or ship-to-ship missiles with a range of some 100 kilometres ( ... more Winning In Afghanstan Part 1 
Washington (UPI) June 07, 2007Taliban insurgents have deliberately sought to avoid the kind of mass casualty suicide attacks that have been the hallmark of their counterparts in Iraq, according to new research for the U.S. government. And analysts say the movement, based in a secure hideout in neighboring Pakistan, is challenging U.S.-led forces for the moral high ground in the Afghan conflict by calling for an international ... more An Escalating War Surges Forward Into The Sands Of Iraq 
Washington (UPI) June 07, 2007More than four months into the "surge" strategy the statistics of U.S., insurgent and civilian casualties reveal an escalating war that may be entering a decisive "tipping point" phase. The Pentagon claims that since January, U.S. forces have killed or captured more than 20,000 insurgents. Although this figure is impressive, it suggests that the total number of active insurgents has risen dramat ... more Boeing Australia Limited To Provide ScanEagle UAV To Troops In Afghanistan 
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 08, 2007Boeing Australia Limited has been awarded a AUD$20 million contract to provide ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based services to the Australian Army in Afghanistan. Throughout the six-month agreement, Boeing Australia Limited will work closely with the Australian Army to provide vital surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for Australian and coalition forces in Afghanistan. T ... more Russian Offer Of Joint Missile Base Startles US 
Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 07, 2007President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered to set up a joint Russian-US anti-missile base to end a crisis between the two countries as Group of Eight leaders agreed a face-saving compromise on climate change. Putin made the startling proposal for a joint base in Azerbaijan during talks with US President George W. Bush aimed at rescuing bilateral relations from a post-Cold War low. The tw ... more
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