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First US National Security Cutter Begins Sea Trials
Pascagoula MS (SPX) Dec 10, 2007The Northrop Grumman-built Bertholf (WMSL 750), the first National Security Cutter (NSC), sailed away from the company's Pascagoula facility under its own power for the first time Tuesday morning to begin its Machinery Trials. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter is now in its third day of trials in the Gulf of Mexico; early reports on the on-going testing have been positive. "This is a huge milest ... more HMS Sutherland Major Upgrade Makes Her The Most Powerful In The Fleet 
London, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2007Defence Minister Baroness Taylor today announced a GBP35 million major upgrade to the Royal Navy frigate HMS Sutherland. New equipment valued at GBP18 million will be installed as part of a general overhaul of the ship under a GBP17 million contract with Babock Marine at their Rosyth dockyard in Scotland. The Type 23 frigate is to get: br> - the Navy's latest and most sophisticated submar ... more Successful Firing Of Oerlikon Millennium During Trials Of The Royal Danish Navy's HDMS Absalon 
Pfaffikon, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 10, 2007Oerlikon Millennium 35 mm naval gun systems successfully engaged surface and air targets during live-fire trials aboard HDMS Absalon, the Royal Danish Navy's first Absalon-class flexible combat support ship. The trials took place during the first and third weeks of November. The test firings formed part of sea trials and Sea Acceptance Tests (SAT) off the Danish coast. Practice ammunition ... more Artificial Jellyfish, Explosives Sensor Among Projects Being Developed At Undersea Technology Center 
Kingston RI (SPX) Dec 10, 2007When researchers at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport began to investigate how to create a covert network of widely-distributed underwater sensors, they imagined attaching the sensors to artificial jellyfish that could maintain their place in the water while passing information from one sensor to the next. So the scientists turned to the Center of Excellence in Undersea Technolo ... more BAE Systems To Develop Adaptive Software Technology For DARPA 
Reston VA (SPX) Dec 10, 2007BAE Systems has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create advanced software development tools and processes that meet changing military needs. The work will adapt large-scale software systems to address emerging threats such as asymmetric warfare. DARPA's Producible Adaptive Model-based Software (PAMS) program will develop software that enables system ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2007The United States said Friday that it was pushing ahead with a planned missile shield that has angered Russia even as a new US assessment downgraded the nuclear threat from Iran. Washington has defended plans to build missile defense facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland as necessary to protect European allies from a potential missile strike from "rogue" states, especially Iran. A ... more Gates warns of Iran threat to US and Mideast 
Manama (AFP) Dec 8, 2007US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday said Iran's foreign policy was a threat to the United States, the Middle East and all countries within range of missiles Tehran is developing. "There can be little doubt that their destabilising foreign policies are a threat to the interests of the United States, to the interests of every country in the Middle East, and to the interests of all co ... more Iran NIE Hurts BMD Say Some Analysts 
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2007 The stunning U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that Iran is not making nuclear weapons will most likely deal a death blow to the Bush administration's already-beleaguered plans to build an anti-ballistic missile base in Poland, armed with 10 interceptors to guard against a future Iranian nuclear ballistic missile attack against Western Europe or the United States. As we noted in this ... more Pakistan Border Plan Part 1 
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2007 The U.S. plan to arm Pakistani tribal forces on the border with Afghanistan to help in the fight against Islamic extremists is fraught with difficulty and freighted by history, but some experts believe it could work if the United States carefully monitors what is done with the aid it provides. Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's foremost experts on the Taliban, this week ridiculed the plan ... more US intelligence official defends report on Iran 
Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2007A top US intelligence official on Saturday responded to right-wing critics of a report that found Iran had suspended its atomic weapons program, saying the findings were the result of "solid" analysis. "The task of the Intelligence Community is to produce objective, ground truth analysis," said Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. "We feel confident in our ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2007 Since 1991, a massive veiled struggle has emerged between Russia and Western energy companies, led by the United states, to control Central Asia's vast energy reserves, centered on the waters of the Caspian. Washington's policy is relatively simple - to maintain its economic isolation of Iran while simultaneously reducing or nullifying Russian influence over the region, with the Europea ... more Analysis: Kazakh oil and Western woes 
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2007 The consolidation of the Kazakh energy industry proceeds apace, and what it eventually means for Western energy companies and investors is unclear. On Thursday, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov told an industry roundtable meeting held in Astana: "I would like to inform you that the national KazMunayGaz company turned to me with a proposal to buy a major blocking stake of MangistauMun ... more Report: Wind farms to power British homes 
London (UPI) Dec 9, 2007 Britain's secretary of business reportedly is backing a plan to have wind farms power all homes in the United Kingdom within 13 years. John Hutton, who previously opposed the plan, is to announce Monday he is opening the seas around Britain to wind farms to reduce reliance on other energy forms, including nuclear power, The Independent reported Sunday. The project would be the wo ... more Brazil lashes out at US-EU 'green' trade plan 
Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 9, 2007Senior trade officials from the United States and Brazil clashed Sunday over a US-EU proposal for fewer tariffs and trade barriers on environmentally-friendly goods and services. Celso Amorim, Brazil's minister of foreign relations, said there was "no agreement" on the proposal when it was discussed at a trade ministers meeting on the sidelines of a key climate summit on Indonesia's island o ... more Iran, China finalise two billion dollar oil contract 
Tehran (AFP) Dec 9, 2007Iran and China's Sinopec on Sunday signed a two billion dollar contract to develop a major Iranian oil field, a crucial deal for the Iranian energy industry at a time of mounting international pressure. The Iranian oil ministry and Sinopec inked the deal to pump oil from the Yadavaran onshore field in southwestern Iran, which was first agreed back in late 2004, at a ceremony in Tehran, an AF ... more
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