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Boeing Completes 200th P-8A Live-Fire Shot
St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Boeing and its P-8A Poseidon team last month completed the program's 200th live-fire shot at the U.S. Navy's Weapons Survivability Laboratory in China Lake, Calif. P-8A live-fire testing enhances aircraft survivability and reduces program risk by providing engineers with reliable data that can be incorporated into the Poseidon's dry bay fire-protection design. During testing, live ordnance ... more Bush: Europe need for missile shield is 'urgent' 
Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2007President George W. Bush on Tuesday warned that Europe urgently needs a US missile defense system to blunt a growing threat from Iran, despite vocal opposition from Russia. In a speech to the US National Defense University, Bush said the world may have less than a decade before arch-foe Tehran possesses rockets able to reach the United States and strike any country in Europe, perhaps by 2015 ... more US may give Turkey intelligence: White House 
Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2007The United States may provide Turkey with information enabling its armed forces to strike Kurdish rebels based in Iraq, the White House said Tuesday, downplaying talk of joint military operations. Asked about the prospects for US-Turkish cooperation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels, spokeswoman Dana Perino declined to comment directly but suggested Washington might ... more US proposes Russian presence at Czech and Polish missile sites 
Prague (AFP) Oct 23, 2007The United States has offered to accept a Russian presence at planned US anti-missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, so as to address Moscow's objections to the shield, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Gates told reporters in Prague that both he and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had put the proposal to the Russians in a bid to increase the project's transparency ... more Molnia-M Carrier Rocket To Orbit Military Satellite 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novsoti) Oct 24, 2007A Molnia-M booster rocket was launched from the Plesetsk space center in north Russia on Tuesday to orbit a Cosmos military satellite, a Space Forces spokesman said. The carrier rocket was launched at 8:39 a.m. Moscow time (4:39 a.m. GMT), and was scheduled to put the military satellite into orbit at 9:35 a.m. Moscow time (5:35 a.m. GMT). The four-stage medium-range Molnia-M, which has a l ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2007The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Egypt of E-2C Airborne Early Warning Command and Control Aircraft as well as associated equipment and services. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $75 million. The Government of Egypt has requested a possible sale of 2 excess E-2C Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Com ... more NATO should focus on training Afghan forces: Karzai 
London (AFP) Oct 23, 2007The NATO-led force in Afghanistan should focus on training Afghan security forces and strengthening domestic institutions, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview broadcast Tuesday. Karzai also told Channel 4 News he was concerned about reports that neighbouring Iran was helping to arm the Islamist Taliban militia and would discuss the issue with Iranian officials. "The answe ... more US acts to rein in Iraq security firms 
Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2007The US government Tuesday vowed to clamp down on Blackwater and other private security firms in Iraq, which stand accused of killing innocent civilians through gung-ho tactics. Officials said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was adopting "immediately" the recommendations of a review panel that exposed a worrying legal impunity for security guards working in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... more EU's Solana, Iran's new nuclear pointman have 'constructive' talks 
Rome (AFP) Oct 23, 2007EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's new hardline nuclear pointman Saeed Jalili met for the first time on Tuesday for talks both sides described as "constructive." "There might be a (second) meeting before the end of November," Solana said after the talks with Jalili and his conservative but pragmatic predecessor, Ali Larijani. It was Solana's first sit-down with Jalili, whos ... more What China Will Want: The Future Intentions Of A Rising Power 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Uncertainty over China's future strategic goals is pervasive in policy circles today. But while China's growing influence has profound consequences for the international system, understanding the ideas embraced by China's leadership about its foreign policy goals is essential to predicting future Chinese intentions. So concludes new research by political scientist Jeffrey W. Legro (University of ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 23, 2007South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has developed the world's most powerful memory chip, which could help create a memory card capable of storing 80 DVD movies. The company said in a statement it has developed the world's first 64-gigabit NAND flash memory product, which it called "a major leap forward" in flash storage. Up to 16 of the chips could be combined to make a 128 ... more Bus Scheduling Algorithm Picks Up the Slack 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2007A prizewinning paper by a USC Viterbi School engineer elegantly solves a basic transit scheduling problem, potentially meaning shorter waits for riders. The question: how much slack should be schedulers of a bus or tram line add to keep operations from bunching up? Maged Dessouky, a professor in the Viterbi School's Daniel J. Epstein department of Industrial and Systems engineering joined with t ... more Platinum-Rich Shell, Platinum-Poor Core 
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Hydrogen fuel cells will power the automobiles of the future; however, they have so far suffered from being insufficiently competitive. At the University of Houston, Texas, USA, a team led by Peter Strasser has now developed a new class of electrocatalyst that could help to improve the capacity of fuel cells. The active phase of the catalyst consists of nanoparticles with a platinum-rich shell a ... more Nuclear Power Worldwide: Status and Outlook 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Nuclear power�s prominence as a major energy source will continue over the next several decades, according to new projections made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has just published a new report, Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power for the period up to 2030. The IAEA makes two annual projections concerning the growth of nuclear power, a low and a high. The low pro ... more Outside View: Odessa-Gdansk pipeline grows 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 22, 2007 The success of the informal energy summit held by Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine in Vilnius, Lithuania, last week will be judged later, when the agreements reached there become reality. But it was certainly an achievement, because it offered more cooperation possibilities for participants, who endorsed the extension of the Ukrainian-Polish Odessa-Brody pipeline to P ... more
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