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Bomber patrols a risky Russian 'response' to US, NATO challenges
Moscow (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Russia's decision to resume Cold War-style strategic bomber patrols confirms it has revived the political will and economic means to challenge US global dominance and NATO expansion with more than just rhetoric, military analysts say. But while the move, announced by President Vladimir Putin on Friday, will play well with domestic audiences and may also win the odd plaudit on the internation ... more India can emulate nuclear powers by not staging tests: US 
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The United States said Thursday that India could emulate other major nuclear powers by not testing atomic weapons, amid debate over the fate of a bilateral nuclear deal if New Delhi conducted a test. "We are not testing and I don't think you see advanced nuclear countries around the world testing. And certainly, we don't encourage other states to do that," State Department spokesman Sean ... more Analysis: Israel turns to old tech 
Tse'Elim Army Base, Israel (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 In the soft sands of the Negev desert, Israeli-made Merkava tanks were about to practice, again, occupying Syrian positions. A mock Syrian line faced them. It comprised anti-tank ditches and behind them bagel-shaped earthen embankments so only the tanks' turrets and cannons would be exposed. Blasts reverberated as the Merkava's cannons opened fire. Between blasts, the rat-tat-tat ... more Analysis: U.S. deal in Pakistan may fail 
Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 The future ruling setup in Pakistan may include both President Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the two leaders who have little in common except a desire to work with the United States against Muslim extremists. Together they would form what the White House and the State Department describe as a "moderate political center" in a country Washington believes may ... more Analysis: Chinese navy starts long march 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 China is bent on the simultaneous development of both an aircraft carrier and a strategic nuclear submarine, or SSBN. Discussions over which should take priority are over, as a higher military budget allocation has accelerated the People's Liberation Army navy's ambitious plan. China has been working more than 20 years on building a carrier, according to a memoir written by Liu Huaqing, ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2007US President George W. Bush will announce plans for gradual troop reductions from Iraq, but at levels far short of those sought by his critics in Congress, The New York Times reported Saturday. The goal of the announcement, which is planned for next month, was to counter public pressure for a more rapid reduction, said the paper, citing unnamed administration and military officials. ... more US military sees looming China threat to satellites 
Huntsville, Alabama (AFP) Aug 14, 2007China may be just three years away from being able to disrupt US military satellites in a regional conflict, a senior US military leader said Tuesday, citing a recent anti-satellite test and other advances. The warning came amid calls at a conference in Huntsville, Alabama for intensified efforts to ensure US "space superiority" in the wake of China's shoot-down January 11 of one of its own ... more Authorities fight looting, disease in quake-hit Peru 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Health authorities in Peru on Sunday battled the spread of infectious diseases in the wake of a devastating earthquake as President Alan Garcia threatened a curfew to stop looting. "I have ordered to use the harshest measures and if needed to impose a curfew," Garcia told reporters in Pisco, the town hit hardest by Wednesday's quake, where he has been monitoring rescue efforts since Friday. ... more Boeing Completes CubeSat Mission To Advance Nano-Satellite Technology 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Boeing has completed the first phase of its nano-satellite research and experimentation with the successful conclusion of the CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) mission. The spacecraft, launched April 17 from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome in Kazakhstan, accomplished 100 percent of its primary mission objectives. Through experiments such as CSTB1, Boeing is evaluating a variety of technologies, design el ... more Broadband revolutionizes education on remote Maldives atolls 
Rashdoo Island, Maldives (AFP) Aug 17, 2007The standard of education was falling in the Maldives before broadband Internet access brought a quiet online revolution to classrooms in the Indian Ocean atoll nation. Now Asina Ahmed hooks up to the Internet and uses a smart board with a touch-sensitive screen to liven up a maths class for a group of young Maldivian children on remote Rashdoo Island. Ahmed invites eight-year-old Aishat ... more |
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Dayton OH (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Ball Aerospace and Technologies has completed the Increment 2 In-Process Review (IPR-2) for the Integrated Overhead Non-Imaging Infrared (ONIR) Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TPED) System (IOTS) development effort. IOTS is a program of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) that will provide capabilities to process and exploit existing and future ONIR sensor ... more Elbit Systems shows big quarterly earnings 
Haifa, Israel (UPI) Aug 16, 2007 Israeli defense company Elbit Systems Ltd. this week reported record results for the second quarter of 2007. "Backlog of orders as of June 30, 2007, reached a record $4.1 billion, compared with (nearly) $3.8 billion as of December 31, 2006," the company statement said. Of these orders, 73 percent were sales from outside Israel. The company said that "61 percent of the backlog is schedul ... more BMD Focus: S-400 delays Part One 
Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2007 Russia's S-400 anti-missile system is now deployed around Moscow. If it works as claimed, it is the most formidable of its kind in the world. But the very slow deployment timetable announced for it indicates a continuing lack of resources to produce it in the Russian industrial sector. Russia announced this month that the first battalion of S-400 Triumf air defense missiles has just be ... more Pakistani forces kill 10 militants 
Islamabad (AFP) Aug 16, 2007Pakistan's armed forces killed 10 suspected pro-Taliban militants in clashes while a bomb left two soldiers dead in fresh violence Thursday in the troubled tribal territory bordering Afghanistan. Troops backed by helicopter gunships battled militants after a military convoy came under attack in volatile northwestern Pakistan. "Ten miscreants were killed and 12 were wounded when security ... more Iran's Guards have 'length and breadth' of Gulf covered 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 15, 2007The chief commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday boasted of his elite force's military prowess, saying its missiles and ships had the "length and breadth" of the Gulf under cover. "We have surface-to-sea missile systems that can cover the length and breadth of the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman," Yahya Rahim Safavi, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards told Iran's internati ... more
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