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China Criticises Irresponsible Comments By Pentagon Official
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2007China on Thursday criticised what it called "irresponsible" comments by a US defense official who said the nation's military transformation should raise alarm bells overseas. Pentagon official Richard Lawless had said Beijing's lack of military transparency was forcing the United States to "prepare for the worst" and was causing unease over China's intentions towards its rival Taiwan. ... more Iraqis Trapped In A US Web As Senator Calls European Efforts Weak 
Washington (UPI) June 14, 2007It has become fashionable for senior Bush administration officials and their last-ditch supporters among U.S. pundits to blame Iraqis -- from top political leaders to ordinary people -- for the mess their country is in. What could be called the latest Krauthammer Doctrine states in its simplest and harshest version: "We gave you freedom -- but you messed it up." Instead, what Bush ... more NGC Lab To Develope Prototype For Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 15, 2007Northrop Grumman has created a prototypical Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS), residing in a Huntsville laboratory, that could potentially save the U.S. Army both time and money in building a fully operational system. IBCS will be an Army transformational program that will establish a network-centric system-of-systems solution for integrating ... more Russia Confirms Arrest Of Space Official For Spying In Austria 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 15, 2007A Russian national detained by Austrian police on allegations of spying is an employee of the Russian Space Agency, an agency's spokesman said Thursday. "We confirm that a [Russian] citizen arrested in Vienna is an employee of the Russian Federal Space Agency," Igor Panarin said. A popular Austrian daily, the Kurier, said Wednesday that police in the town of Gmunden in northern Austria had ... more US Says Nothing To Fear From New Nuclear Warheads As Shields Go Up 
Washington (AFP) June 14, 2007The United States Thursday defended plans to overhaul its sea-based nuclear arsenal with a new generation of warheads, arguing the program did not pose any extra threat to nations like Russia. The administration wants to replace much of its Cold War stockpile with a new "Reliable Replacement Warhead" (RRW) that it argues would be safer and cheaper to maintain over the coming decades. ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007The launch of a U.S. telecommunications satellite, DirecTV-10, on board a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket has been scheduled for July 7, a leading Russian space company said Wednesday. The DirecTV-10 is a commercial telecommunications satellite designed and manufactured by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to provide consumers across continental United States, Hawaii, and Alaska with local a ... more Guessing Robots Predict Their Environments For Better Navigation 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 14, 2007Engineers at Purdue University are developing robots able to make "educated guesses" about what lies ahead as they traverse unfamiliar surroundings, reducing the amount of time it takes to successfully navigate those environments. The method works by using a new software algorithm that enables a robot to create partial maps as it travels through an environment for the first time. The robot refer ... more Japanese Researchers Help Robots Brush Up Communication Skills 
Tokyo (AFP) June 13, 2007Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had developed a new system that would allow robots to learn their own communication skills and conversation patterns. The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology said the system, which it described as a world first, allows robots to move beyond recognition of only certain nouns to understand even ambiguous phrases. "Robots wo ... more Dawn Spacecraft Never Damaged; Set To Launch July 7 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 13, 2007Marc Rayman who is helping oversee the Dawn launch campaign team at KSC has told SpaceDaily.com. "The report of a worker falling [on the Dawn spacecraft] is wrong; I don't know how such a rumor even got started. A tool made inadvertent contact with the back of the solar array (i.e., the side without solar cells). There is no reason to expect this to have an effect on our plans to launch on July ... more Airlines To Order Nearly 30,000 New Planes In Next 20 Years 
London (AFP) June 13, 2007US aerospace giant Boeing forecast on Wednesday that airlines worldwide would take delivery of nearly 30,000 new jets in the next two decades amid surging demand for air travel. Boeing, unveiling the US group's annual report in London, forecast that the worldwide aviation sector would deliver 28,600 commercial aircraft over the next 20 years worth a total 2.800 trillion dollars (2.107 trillion e ... more |
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Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 14, 2007As a first, the Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 UAV System has received a Permit to Fly under the new amended European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Regulation. The Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 is one of the first Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and the first helicopter UAV that received an EASA Permit to Fly . This new amended regulation is applied to EU-registered aircraft, for which such a Permit to Fly ... more Pentagon Drops Ideology 
Arlington VA (UPI) June 13, 2007You don't need to be a defense expert to see the biggest lesson of Friday's leadership purge at the Pentagon. When you're in the military, losing wars is a bad career move. That's what America is doing in Iraq right now -- losing -- and the political system has had enough of the senior officers who presided over the debacle. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said when he took over from t ... more Apropos ABM Without Hysterics 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007One of the main sensations of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm was President Vladimir Putin's surprise proposal to his American colleague George W. Bush to exchange the radar in the Czech Republic for the Russia-rented radar system in Azerbaijan. Competent people know that this idea had been discussed prior to the summit and was only presented in Heiligendamm - no more than that. Putin knew w ... more Detente Over Fear Of Iran 
Berlin (UPI) June 13, 2007While a joint U.S.-Russian missile defense system operated from a radar station in Azerbaijan may not make much sense, Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal established one fact: Iran is seen by both powers as a serious threat -- an assessment that could help the West in convincing Moscow to agree to harsher economic sanctions. Putin's proposal at the Group of Eight summit to operate ... more Gates Points To Iran As Source Of Weapons To Taliban 
Ramstein Air Base, Germany (AFP) Jun 13, 2007US Defence Secretary Robert Gates Wednesday said "substantial" quantities of Iranian weapons are flowing into Afghanistan and it is difficult to believe the Iranian government is not aware of it. Gates, who in the past has refrained from pointing the finger directly at the Iranian government, said recent anlysis "makes it pretty clear there is a substantial flow of weapons." "I would say g ... more
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