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China Eyes J-10A Sale To Iran
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 14, 2007 Is China preparing to export its J-10A fighter aircraft to Iran? Most likely, say military observers in Moscow and Tehran. The Russian Kommersant Daily reported that an Iranian aviation company agent had confirmed that China would export to Iran 24 J-10A fighters between 2008 and 2010 at a price of $1 billion. Allowing this information to surface at this time appears intended to embarra ... more Northrop Grumman-Built Submarine North Carolina Gets Clean Sweep During Sea Trials 
Newport News VA (SPX) Dec 17, 2007The nation's newest and most advanced nuclear-powered submarine, North Carolina (SSN 777), returned to Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard with a broom atop its sail to signify a clean sweep of the ship's initial sea trials. "We fully exercised the ship through the full range of speed to the full range of depth, and I'm pleased to report that the trials were successful," said Adm. Kirkland Do ... more USAF Weather Satellite Delivered To Launch Site 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2007The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a July 2008 launch. "We're proud to have our third Block 5D-3 spacecraft at the launch site," said Sue Stretch, Lockheed Martin DMS ... more Russian army chief accuses West over arms control 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 15, 2007The Russian army's chief of staff accused the West on Saturday of playing politics with European arms control and warned that the launch of US interceptor missiles could trigger a Russian missile strike. "Western states have deliberately turned an agreement on European arms control into an instrument to achieve political aims" against Russia, Yury Baluyevksy said at a press conference broadc ... more Iraq Tribal Alliances Pay Off 
Zuwayyah, Iraq (UPI) Dec 13, 2007 Nearly five years into the occupation of Iraq the United States is learning what the British, the Turks and even Saddam Hussein knew and practiced before them: Forming alliances with tribal sheiks is essential to pacifying and governing the country. For tribal identification in Iraq is not just an asterisk in a personal biography, it's fundamental to identity, even a person's place in s ... more |
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Prague (AFP) Dec 15, 2007The Czech foreign ministry on Saturday called "unimaginable" a warning by Russia's army chief that any US interceptor missiles that might be launched from Poland could trigger inadvertent retaliation by Russia. "The language from the Russian generals is unacceptable, even unimaginable in the democratic world," Czech foreign ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Opletalova told the CTK news agency. ... more Turkey Denies Kurd Civilian Areas Hit In New Air Strikes 
Ankara (AFP) Dec 16, 2007Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan denied that civilian areas had been hit in air strikes by Turkish warplanes early Sunday in northern Iraq. "You should trust statements made by the Turkish Armed Forces," Babacan said in televised remarks, in response to a question on whether the warplanes had struck settlements along the border. An Iraqi Kurdish official said that eight Turkish warpl ... more Israeli team in US to counter new Iran assessment: press 
Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 16, 2007An Israeli delegation is holding a series of meetings in the United States to argue that Iran still seeks nuclear arms despite a US intelligence report to the contrary, a daily said on Sunday. The delegation left for the United States last week "with the goal of proving to the Americans that the Iranian nuclear weapons programme is definitely still in development," Maariv said, citing unname ... more India tests surface-to-air missile: defence ministry 
Bhubaneswar (AFP) Dec 15, 2007India on Saturday successfully tested its surface-to-air Akash missile for the third time in as many days, defence officials said. The missile blasted off from the Chandipur-on-Sea testing site in Orissa state on India's eastern coast on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The two earlier tests this week at the testing site 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of state capital Bhubaneswa ... more Japan to conduct missile interceptor test next week: official 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 14, 2007Japan will carry out its first test launch of the US-developed SM-3 missile interceptor system next week from a Japanese warship in waters off Hawaii, a defence ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. It will be the first test of the Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) by a country other than the United States, the spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity. The destroyer Kongo will launch the missile ... more |
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Miami (UPI) Dec 14, 2007 Brazil's Tupi oil field -- estimated to contain as much as 8 billion barrels of oil -- could quite possibly have an even bigger deposit right next to it, experts said this week. According to officials at Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil and gas company, the Sugar Loaf field off the shore of Brazil and right next to Tupi may produce even greater yields. Speculation about the bounty of ... more Analysis: British-Azeri energy ties 
Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2007 Following the 1991 collapse of communism, the United States was Azerbaijan's largest single foreign investor, but Britain is rapidly expanding its role there and in 2006 overtook the United States as Baku's leading investor. According to the Azerbaijani National Statistical Committee, in 2006 of $3.7 billion total foreign investment in Azerbaijan, Britain placed first with more than $1 ... more US lawmakers back energy bill to reduce oil consumption 
Washington (AFP) Dec 14, 2007The United States was poised to adopt measures to reduce its dependence on foreign oil after the Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would raise fuel efficiency rules for vehicles and boost ethanol production. The bill won overwhelming support from both parties in 86-8 vote but only after the Democratic majority dropped disputed provisions that would have cut billions of dollars worth of t ... more Airbus close to sale of four factories: report 
Berlin (AFP) Dec 16, 2007Airbus boss Thomas Enders could be days away from selling four of the aircraft maker's factories to US company Spirit Aero Systems, a German newspaper reported on Sunday. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cited insiders as saying a deal to sell the three production sites in Germany -- in Augsburg, Nordenham and Varung -- and one in Filton in Britain, could be inked by Friday. The head o ... more Newer, Simpler Fixes Restore Corroded Pipelines 
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Dec 17, 2007Researchers are taking the guesswork out of repairing corroded oil and gas pipelines with two recent studies that appeared in the journal Experimental Techniques. Historically, engineers repairing corroded pipeline segments have not had much guidance in regard to measuring the effectiveness of their choice of repair materials. This is especially true in the case of repair materials for internal ... more
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