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QinetiQ Demonstrates Day Night All Environment Visibility Solution For Helicopter Pilots
Farnborough, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2007QinetiQ has developed and successfully flight trialled a Day Night All Environment (DNAE) visibility solution that provides helicopter pilots with alternative, complementary sources of imaging information, enabling them to fly safely in low light or adverse weather conditions. When added to a suite of navigational and tactical guidance aids also being developed by QinetiQ, the existing operation ... more Large-scale WMD drill launched off Japan 
Yokosuka, Japan (AFP) Oct 13, 2007A 41-country exercise aimed at stopping the trade in weapons of mass destruction was launched off Japan on Saturday, officials said. Ships and planes from Australia, Britain, France, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States were deployed on day one of the three-day drill in the Sea of Sagami off Tokyo Bay, Japanese officials said. China and South Korea were notable absentees from Pacifi ... more Boeing Advanced Military Satellite Begins On-Orbit Checkout 
Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) Oct 15, 2007Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron and contractors with Boeing Corporation took over early-orbit operations on Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Vehicle 1 from a Boeing facility in El Segundo, Calif., approximately 30 minutes after it launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Oct. 10. The teaming gives 3rd SOPS Airmen an opportunity to become acquainted with WGS during its ... more US reassures Russia on bases, warns over arms sales 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 13, 2007US Defence Secretary Robert Gates reassured Russia on Saturday that the Pentagon will not put military bases in ex-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine, but he criticised Moscow for arms sales to US foes Iran and Syria. Speaking at the Military Academy of General Staff, at the end of a tense two-day visit to Moscow, Gates said there would be no US bases in either Georgia or Ukraine. The Pentagon w ... more Nuclear plans under scrutiny as Putin visits embattled Iran 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 14, 2007President Vladimir Putin's trip to Iran this week, the first by a Kremlin leader in three decades, comes at a vital moment for the Islamic republic's controversial Russian-backed nuclear programme. Putin will be attending a summit of Caspian Sea countries on Tuesday, joined by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan for talks focusing on how to divide the landlocked and ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 15, 2007While biometric equipment is gaining popularity in a variety of applications, such as ensuring secure access to buildings, industries are finding that many users believe the devices are unsanitary and a potential source of germs that could cause illness. But a Purdue University study has found that while the platen glass surfaces of devices that scan fingerprints or hand geometry may look more u ... more Raytheon To Partner With Army On Integrated Air And Missile Defense 
McKinney TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Raytheon has entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command-U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC-ARSTRAT) to investigate improvements to integrated air and missile defense mission effectiveness. Under the five-year agreement, Raytheon will develop and implement a series of simulations-based investigations that share si ... more Kuwait to buy Patriot missiles 
Kuwait City (AFP) Oct 12, 2007Kuwait is to buy an unspecified number of Patriot missiles from the United States, Defence Minister Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah told the state news agency KUNA on Friday. Sheikh Jaber, responding to questions about Washington's sale of arms to Gulf allies, said "Kuwait has signed deals, not for airplanes, but for materiel such as ships and Patriot missiles." He did not give any further det ... more North Korea slams 'brazen-faced' Bush 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 12, 2007North Korea's official media lashed out at "brazen-faced" US President George W. Bush on Friday, warning his recent strong criticism of the communist country could cloud nuclear disarmament efforts. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Bush's description of the Pyongyang government as "brutal" before the United Nations General Assembly last month had damaged North Korea's dignity and i ... more Commentary: New global paradigm 
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 So far, watching the presidential pre-debate debates, no one has suggested how he or she wants the world to look like 15 to 20 years on the high road to the future. No one seems to have noticed, let alone mentioned, a new global paradigm: the newfound importance of rivers of capital that have displaced the flow of goods for measuring national wealth. Also new actors on the global stage that de ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 Five Eastern European states have agreed to build a new oil pipeline, in a move they say increases their energy security by reducing dependency on Russia. Azerbaijan, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia and Ukraine on Oct. 10 signed a deal that could provide Eastern (and ultimately Western) Europe with an alternative to Russian oil imports. The treaty, signed by the five countries' presi ... more NIST Light Source Illuminates Fusion Power Diagnostics 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Using a device that can turn a tiny piece of laboratory space into an ion cloud as hot as those found in a nuclear fusion reactor, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are helping to develop one of the most exotic yardsticks on earth, an instrument to monitor conditions in the plasma of an experimental fusion reactor. Their measurement tool also is used in inca ... more Analysis: E. Europe offers transit routes 
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 In the increasingly fractious scramble for the Caspian's burgeoning oil and natural gas energy reserves, resource-poor but strategically vital Eastern Europe is positioning itself to provide both consumer markets and transit routes to Russia for the former Soviet states bordering the world's largest inland sea. It is a development where optimism may well collide with Russia's current ne ... more Storing Data On Atomic Roundabouts 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2007There are right-handed and left-handed yoghurts, right-handed and left-handed snail shells, and right-handed and (occasionally) left-handed screws. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now demonstrated the existence of right-handed and left-handed "magnetic vortices". Through their research, in collaboration with colleagues from Berlin and Geneva, they believe that this physical phenomenon ... more Analysis: Algeria faces attacks on energy 
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 Attacks on French companies in Algeria by an Islamist group associated with al-Qaida are moving some of those companies to evacuate their employees, but a relatively quick response by security forces there and increasing global demand for the nation's oil and gas make it likely that energy production and export will be little affected by the violence. The energy business is crucial for ... more
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