| October 09, 2007 |  |
SpaceWar Advertising Kit |
| Previous Issues | Oct 08 | Oct 05 | Oct 04 | Oct 03 | Oct 02 |
Britain to cut Iraq troops to 2,500 by early 2008: PM
London (AFP) Oct 8, 2007Britain will more than halve the number of its troops in Iraq to 2,500 by next spring, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, in a long-expected statement. He also announced plans to help local Iraqis who have worked for British forces in the country since the 2003 US-led invasion to settle. "We plan for next spring to reduce force numbers in southern Iraq to a figure of 2,500," he tol ... more Army needs three to four years to recover from Iraq strains: chief 
Washington (AFP) Oct 8, 2007The US Army will need three or four years to recover from the strains of repeated deployments to Iraq even with a planned drawdown of US forces next year, the service's chief said Monday. General George Casey said the army is "out of balance" after six years of warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq, and facing unpredictable demands in an era of "persistent conflict." "Out of balance is not bro ... more Hu prepares to chart next five years for China 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2007Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong was often referred to as the Great Helmsman. That leaves some observers wondering what they should call Hu Jintao since, during his five years in power, China has sometimes resembled a rudderless ship. "Hu Jintao's style tends to be management of crises rather than an overall political vision for the country," said Russell Leigh Moses, a Beiji ... more Raytheon Awarded 150 Million Dollar Patriot Pure Fleet Contract 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Raytheon has received a $150 million U.S. Army contract to begin the Patriot "Pure Fleet" modernization program bringing all Army Patriot equipment to state-of-the-art Patriot Configuration 3 status. The initial contract provides for the upgrade of one battalion consisting of four fire units of Patriot hardware. "Pure Fleet" is the result of the Army's decision in February 2006 to upgrade additi ... more UAS Video Terminal Connects Boots On The Ground To Eyes In The Sky 
Redstone Arsenal AL (AFNS) Oct 09, 2007The Army fielded its 200th One-System Remote Video Terminal to Iraq and Afghanistan last month. Soldiers using an OSRVT can display the sensor feed from any of the Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems and gain an unprecedented, instantaneous common view of the battlefield. The OSRVT is a leap in capability from other UAS video receivers because it displays not only video, but also "metadata" that te ... more |
korea:
 milplex:  superpowers:  |
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 09, 2007The Australian Government will enter into a $927 million partnership with the United States to access a world-leading communications capability provided by the new Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGS) constellation. Under our partnership arrangement, Australia will fund one satellite plus associated ground infrastructure to extend the constellation to six satellites and the US will fun ... more Future Combat Systems Industry Team Delivers Network Capability To Current Force 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation, lead systems integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, have delivered six additional network integration capability "B-kits" to vehicle integrators BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems and AM General, bringing the total number of B-kits delivered to date to 18. The B-kits are being installed on Bra ... more Northrop Grumman Tests Multi-Mission Command And Telemetry System For Key Global Space Programs 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Northrop Grumman, in conjunction with ground system teammate Raytheon, recently completed the System Acceptance Test (SAT) of a Common Command and Telemetry System (CCTS) that will potentially reduce costs between two programs, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). "The successful completion of this milestone proves ... more NetFires Delivers First Future Combat System Equipment To Army Soldiers 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2007NetFires, a joint venture between Raytheon Missile Systems business and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, delivered the first two Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System Container Launch Units to Army Evaluation Task Force soldiers in Fort Bliss, Texas. The NLOS-LS CLU is the first Future Combat System equipment to be delivered, taking FCS closer to providing the warfighter a much-needed precis ... more Elbit Systems Introduces Next-Gen Improvised Explosive Device Jammer 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Remotely-triggered IED's have emerged as a major threat in today's high and low intensity combat scenarios. Although their preparation is relatively easy, they are sometimes quite sophisticated, and finding ways to counter them is a high priority task. Elbit Systems has devised a modular, programmable multi-band radio-frequency jammer which denies the enemy use of selected portions of the RF spe ... more |
miltech:
 uav:  iran:  terrorwars:  |
Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2007A 26-year-old female property developer tops this year's Forbes list of the richest people in China, grabbing the number one spot with a net worth of 16 billion dollars, the US magazine said Monday. That amount also makes Yang Huiyan the richest woman in Asia, according to a statement from Forbes. All 40 people on Forbes Asia's 2007 China Rich List are billionaires, compared with only 15 ... more 3,000 evacuated after China landslide blocks river 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2007More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in southwestern China after a huge landslide dammed a river, creating a menacing lake that threatened to burst, state media reported Monday. The landslide occurred Friday when an estimated 500,000 cubic metres (18 million cubic feet) of mud and rock tumbled into a river near Guangyuan city in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency sai ... more Researchers Mimic Vascular System To Nourish Engineered Tissue For Transplants 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 09, 2007One day soon, laboratories may grow synthetically engineered tissues such as muscle or cartilage needed for transplants. In a major step forward, Cornell engineers describe in the journal Nature Materials a microvascular system they have developed that can nourish growing tissues. The researchers have engineered tiny channels within a water-based gel that mimic a vascular system at the cellular ... more Researcher Studies What Makes Quantum Dots Blink 
Argonne IL (SPX) Oct 09, 2007In order to learn more about the origins of quantum dot blinking, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology have developed a method to characterize it on faster time scales than have previously been accessed. Nanocrystals of semiconductor material, also known as quantum dots, are being intens ... more Carbon-heavy growth 'suicide' for India, says climate expert 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007High incomes and high carbon dioxide emissions go hand-in-hand all over the world, but the head of the globe's top scientific body on climate change says India can be different. India is drafting a climate change strategy due next month, ahead of a key United Nations meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December to begin talks on post-2012 emissions-cuts commitments. "India shouldn't emulate t ... more
|
wind:
 energy-news:  energy-news:  ariane:  |
|
| Previous Issues | Oct 08 | Oct 05 | Oct 04 | Oct 03 | Oct 02 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2007 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
