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Iran 'doesn't need nuclear weapons': president
London (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Iran is not looking to develop nuclear weapons, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Britain's Channel 4 News Wednesday amid continued global concern at its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. In a live interview from the grounds of the presidential palace in Tehran, Ahmadinejad told the broadcaster through a translator: "We don't want a bomb. We are against bombs, actually... ... more Iran warns against 'political interference' in UN inspections 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Iran said Wednesday that new UN sanctions would torpedo renewed nuclear inspections but the United States and European powers said there must be sanctions if Tehran presses on with uranium enrichment. In Washington, the US State Department said the six major countries working to resolve the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear program will discuss a draft UN sanctions text September 21 in ... more Israel believes N. Korea selling nuke material to Syria: report 
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Israel recently carried out reconnaissance flights over Syria, taking pictures of possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials believed might have been supplied with material from North Korea, The New York Times reported Thursday. A US administration official said Israeli officials believed that North Korea might be unloading some of its nuclear material on Syria, the Times ... more Outside View: Upgrading Gabala 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 12, 2007 On Sept. 15, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will host consultations involving Russian, U.S. and Azerbaijani diplomats and military experts, who will discuss the possible use of Russia's Daryal early-warning radar in Gabala, Azerbaijan, for monitoring the Iranian missile program. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush, who met at the Asia-Pacific Economic ... more Analysis: India's defense sector 
Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2007 Sweden's BAe Systems SWS Defense signed an agreement with India's Ordnance Factories Board to upgrade the country's air-defense guns. The Indian Express newspaper reported Tuesday that the upgrade will be the second for the 40mm L-70 guns, which India introduced in the early 1960s. India's ordnance factories make the guns under ... more |
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Miami (UPI) Sep 12, 2007 Venezuelan and Chinese state petroleum companies said they will spend more than $10 billion to develop the oil-rich Faja del Orinoco region, part of a continuing effort by Caracas to bolster ties between the two countries. Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said the project will produce up to 1 million barrels per day at full capacity. Speaking at an OPEC meeting in Vienna ... more NCAR Teams With United Airlines To Pinpoint Turbulence In Clouds: Research Can Help Reduce Delays, Injuries, Costs 
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 13, 2007A new turbulence detection system now being tested is alerting pilots to patches of rough air as they fly through clouds. The system, designed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and tested by United Airlines on commercial flights, is designed to better protect passengers from injuries caused by turbulence while reducing flight delays and lowering aviation costs. The ... more KC-30 Tanker's General Electric Power Plant Completes One Million Takeoff And Landing Cycles 
Melbourne FL (SPX) Sep 13, 2007The General Electric CF6-80E1 engine destined for Northrop Grumman's KC-30 Tanker recently completed one million takeoff and landing cycles, illustrating the engine's reliability on the A330 aircraft. The CF6-80E1 engine, produced by GE Aviation, was designed specifically for the Airbus A330-200 and -300 platforms and powers more than 140 aircraft in operation today with 18 operators worldwide. ... more Skyray 48 Takes Flight 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2007Calm excitement filled the ground control station. Engineers stared intently at their computer screens as the pilot, sitting next to them, flexed his fingers on the controls. Ground crew tending the aircraft finished putting away their equipment. Preparations for the first flight of the unmanned X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft were complete. Years of research, design, construction ... more QinetiQ's Zephyr UAV Exceeds Official World Record For Longest Duration Unmanned Flight 
White Sands NM (SPX) Sep 12, 2007QinetiQ's Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has exceeded the official world record time for the longest duration unmanned flight with a 54 hour flight achieved during trials at the US Military's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The flight trials were funded through the Ministry of Defence (MOD) research programme. The duration of the flight ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2007 One of the most expensive procurements in Pentagon history, the Joint Strike Fighter program, has recently been estimated to cost just over $299 billion for nearly 2,500 aircraft. This attempt to modernize America's tactical aircraft inventory is shackled by cost growth and production during and after an insufficient testing period. Some used to call this "concurrency"; "buy ... more Boeing gets 1.1 billion dollar contract to maintain air force tankers 
Washington (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Boeing announced Tuesday it has won a ten year, 1.1 billion dollar contract to provide depot maintanance for the US Air Force's KC-135 tanker fleet. The deal represents a renewal of contract that Boeing has had since 1998 to provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance for more than 200 of the aircraft. The work will be performed at facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, it said. ... more Russian army touts new bomb on television 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Russia's army on Tuesday unveiled a new seven-tonne explosive device on national television, touting the anti-terrorism bomb as four times more powerful than the strongest US explosives. The bomb "permits us state security and at the same time the ability to battle against international terrorism in any situation, in any region," Russian Army chief General Alexandre Rushkin said. ... more Analysis: A third of U.S. watch list wrong 
Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 The U.S government's consolidated terrorist watch list contains more than three-quarters of a million names, is growing at the rate of 20,000 names a month, and is consulted several million times a day. But more than a third of the records examined in a recent audit contained inaccurate or inconsistent information. The audit, by the Justice Department's inspector general, also found ... more More than 2,000 ex-soldiers riot in China: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 11, 2007About 2,000 ex-soldiers rioted last week in three Chinese cities over conditions at vocational colleges where they were re-training as railway workers, a Hong Kong-based rights group said Tuesday. About 1,000 protesting former soldiers damaged facilities at a college in Baotou city in the northern Inner Mongolia region and then clashed with police sent to quell the unrest, the Information ... more
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