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Double US air strike kills 25 in Iraq
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 5, 2007A double US air strike on an Iraqi village killed around 25 suspected Iranian-linked insurgents on Friday, the military said, with Iraqi officials claiming women and children were among the dead. The strikes on Jayzani Al-Imam, 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of the capital, came after a ground operation ran into trouble against insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades, the US military sai ... more MBDA Director Takes Up Business Management Assignment On The MEADS Program 
Rome, Italy (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Marco Pistoni has been named Business Management Director for MEADS International and the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program. He joins the program management team in Orlando on assignment from MBDA Italia S.p.A., and will report to the executive management team of President Jim Cravens (Lockheed Martin - U.S.), Executive Vice President Dr. Axel Widera (LFK - Germany) and Technic ... more Billion Dollar Australian Air Warfare Destroyer Program Begins Construction 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Representatives of the AWD Alliance (the Commonwealth of Australia, Raytheon Australia and ASC Shipbuilding) have signed Australia's Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD) Phase III contract signaling the start of building. As the AWD Mission Systems Integrator, Raytheon Australia will "Australianize" the combat system around the Aegis core. The contract covers the design, development and procurement of ... more Thompson Files: Best military aircraft 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 The most successful aircraft in the history of military aviation isn't a supersonic fighter or a stealthy bomber: It is a propeller-driven cargo plane called the C-130 Hercules that has evolved into more variants than any other fixed-wing plane ever built. The Hercules is so successful that in 2006 it became only the second aircraft of American origin to reach the half-century milestone ... more Iran Becomes Topic A On The Net 
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, a take-no-prisoners hardliner and neocon icon, said in London there was only one option left to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions -- bombing. U.N. sanctions, reasoned Bolton, would continue to be opposed by Russia and China. The EU team of France, Britain and Germany is less than solid. Germany does more business with Iran than any other European country. About ... more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Oct 08, 2007The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has awarded two contracts to Raytheon totaling more than $100 million. The awarded contracts include a multi-year contract to Raytheon to continue to provide technical, training and logistics support from 2007 through 2009 for the Kingdom's Patriot and Hawk air defense systems. The other is a contract extension to provide local support services for 2007. "Rayth ... more China's Hu: Cautious, efficient, and still a mystery 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Cautious and efficient are words often used to describe Hu Jintao, the 64-year-old leader of China's Communist Party, but beyond generic adjectives like these, surprisingly little is known about him. As the October 15 start of the 17th Party Congress approaches, observers wonder what makes one of the world's most powerful men get up in the morning. Five years into what is almost certain ... more Global approach needed on cybercrime: experts 
Geneva (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Telecoms and computer executives, legal officials and UN agencies on Friday warned that the world needs to take a global approach to tackling cybercrime and security issues on the Internet. International Telecommunications Union chief Hamadoun Toure said individual national or regional approaches to tackle spam, hackers, remote attacks on computer systems and use of the Internet for crime wo ... more Thales And Boeing Selected For FRES Integration Role 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 08, 2007The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) today announced that Thales UK in partnership with Boeing, through its Boeing Defence UK subsidiary, have been selected as the preferred bidder for the role of System of Systems Integrator (SOSI) for the Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) program. The FRES program will provide the British Army with a family of medium-weight, network-enabled, air-deploy ... more India seeks aerial wargames with US, NATO As It Tests Another Nuke Class Missile 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 6, 2007India wants to join multinational wargames in the United States, billed as the world's toughest aerial drill, officials said on Saturday. The event, codenamed "Red Flag," will be staged next January with participants drawn from NATO members and other US military allies. "We have bid to take part in the exercises in 2008, which are the most sought after by air forces the world over," Indi ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 5, 2007More than a million Made-in-China Boy Scout badges are being recalled for having unacceptably high lead levels, a US scouting spokesman said Friday. "During a routine test of products, Boy Scouts of America found that one component of a totem, a cub scout recognition item, contains unacceptable amounts of lead" said Gregg Shields, a spokesman for the Dallas, Texas-based group. There was ... more US Lacks Data On Supply Of Minerals Critical To Economy And National Security 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2007To make the products people use every day, from mobile phones and computers to toothpaste, TVs, and cars, the United States relies on a variety of nonfuel minerals that have limited global availability. However, a new report from the National Research Council finds that neither the federal government nor industry leaders have enough accurate information to know how secure the supplies of these m ... more 'Made in India' rising to challenge China: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 7, 2007"Made in India" could be the next big economic story with the country challenging China's position as the leading global manufacturing hub within five years, says a new report. Right now China is the favourite choice for outsourcing manufacturing while India is preferred for information technology, finance and customer services, said Capgemini, Europe's largest computer consultancy. But ... more Intrigue, power plays as China's communist Congress nears 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Amid much intrigue, China is gearing up for the ruling Communist Party's five-yearly gathering at which President Hu Jintao is expected to make bold power plays and cement his own agenda for the nation. At the party's 17th Congress beginning on October 15, careers of top cadres will be killed off and rising stars could emerge as successors to Hu, while revamped economic and political bluepri ... more New Transparent Plastic Strong As Steel 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 08, 2007By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue. Engineering professor Nicholas Kotov almost dubbed it "plastic steel," but the new material isn' ... more
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