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BMD Focus: Israel's BMD two-front war
Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 On Tuesday, we reported in our sister BMD Watch column about Israeli defense planners' decision to radically beef up the deployment of their Arrow anti-ballistic missile interceptors in the north of their country to prepare for a massive very short-range ballistic missile bombardment from Syria in the event of war. Most of the coverage of Israeli ballistic missile defense procurement ... more IAEA says Iran nuclear accord 'significant step' 
Vienna (AFP) Aug 30, 2007Iran's decision to answer key questions about its nuclear programme is "a significant step forward," the UN nuclear agency said Thursday, in a development expected to help Tehran avoid new sanctions. The IAEA also said Iran's nuclear work was far below the industrial level vaunted by Tehran in April, according to a confidential IAEA report obtained by AFP. Iran is continuing to defy ... more Raytheon Names Dr. Thomas Kennedy VP Tactical Airborne Systems 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business has named Dr. Thomas A. Kennedy vice president of its Tactical Airborne Systems organization. Kennedy will report to Jon Jones, Raytheon Company vice president and president of SAS. Kennedy assumes overall responsibility for the business operations and strategic direction of Tactical Airborne Systems, which administers radar, electronic ... more DRS Receives 250 Million Dollars Award From US Navy To Provide a Sat-Based Network For Overseas Troops 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Aug 31, 2007DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $250 million contract, including options, from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Charleston in South Carolina. In support of this single-award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract DRS will provide a satellite-based internet-broadband service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network to ... more Analysis: Rafael unveils armor 
Haifa, Israel (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 Rafael Armament Development Authority, one of Israel's largest defense firms, has unveiled its next-generation "add-on armor technology" for combat vehicles: the Multi-Threat Armor Protection System. "We anticipate the successful integration of M-TAPS in the MRAP II (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles) and MPV programs," Nehemia Shachar, the company's head of the Protection ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 31, 2007Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in ... more OSU Sweet Biofuels Research Goes Down On The Farm 
Stillwater OK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Oklahoma State University's sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field. Sweet sorghum can be grown throughout temperate climate zones of the United States, including Oklahoma. It provides high biomass yield with low irrigation and fertilizer requirements. Corn ethanol ... more Brazil's TAM Airlines Orders 1,000th Boeing 777 
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Boeing has announced that an order from Brazil's TAM Airlines for four additional 777-300ERs brings to 1,003 the number of 777s ordered since the first order of the popular widebody in 1990. Today's announcement also means that, to date in 2007, Boeing has received orders for 100 of the popular 777s. TAM is Brazil's largest airline, flying both domestic and international routes. TAM ... more India to award world's biggest warplane contract on merit 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 29, 2007India will award the world's biggest warplane contract on merit rather than political considerations following a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, the defence ministry said. India on Tuesday invited bids from global defence contractors for 126 planes worth more than 10 billion dollars -- the world's largest military aircraft deal in 15 years. "We want the best equipment and ... more US Senator Lugar Speaks For Extending START-I Treaty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 30, 2007Russia and the U.S. should extend the START-I Treaty, which expires in 2009, or else negative consequences will result, U.S. senator Richard Lugar said Tuesday. "The United States and Russia must extend the START Treaty's verification and transparency elements, which will expire in 2009," Lugar told an arms control round table in Moscow. Lugar said the two countries should also introduce ... more |
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Southwest Asia (AFNS) Aug 30, 2007Global Hawk and U-2 aircraft provide critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and in order to be efficient and effective the technological sensors on these aircraft cannot be subjected to heat for extended periods of time. Due to the compact size of the Global Hawk and the freezing temperatures at its normal operating altitudes, the aircraft does not have a robust environmental ... more India plans counterintelligence 
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 29, 2007 India has directed all its state governments to put in place a results-oriented counterintelligence mechanism to avert growing terror strikes. The anti-terror strategy that India has formulated so far lacks a nationwide actionable counterintelligence mechanism, as most of the Indian states do not have a proper counterintelligence wing in their police departments to get prior ... more Russian bombers not carrying nuclear weapons, air force says 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2007Russia said Monday that strategic bomber planes which were ordered this month to resume the Soviet-era practice of long-range patrols are not carrying nuclear weapons, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. "We are not flying with nuclear weapons during our patrols. They are not aboard. There are only training weapons," the head of strategic aviation, General Pavel Androsov, was quoted as saying. ... more MIT Probes Secret Of Bone's Strength 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 29, 2007Scientists and engineers are eager to understand the secret behind bone's lightweight toughness so they can mimic it in the design of new materials, but experimental studies have revealed a number of different strength mechanisms at different scales of focus, rather than a single theory. New research from MIT appearing in the July 25 issue of Nanotechnology reveals for the first time the ... more NKorea searches for fugitives after floods: aid group 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 29, 2007North Korea has stepped up searches in border towns for people trying to flee the country after devastating floods, a South Korean aid group said Wednesday. Security officials in the communist state have been rounding up illegal travellers in a door-to-door search twice a day in border towns, Good Friends said in a report. Authorities are worried about an exodus across the China border ... more
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