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First STOVL Stealth Fighter Unveiled At Lockheed Martin
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II, the first fighter to combine stealth with short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) capability and supersonic speed, made its debut amid customers from the United States Marine Corps, the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, and the Italian Air Force and Navy. Attendees at the rollout ceremony in Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth assembly plant inclu ... more Korean Military To Use Elbit Systems Skylark II Tactical UAV 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Elbit Systems announced that Skylark II, was selected by the Korean military as a preferred solution in a tender involving extensive technical tests and including UAV manufacturers from all over the world. The first phase of the contract includes a comprehensive Skylark II system while additional systems are expected in the future. The Skylark II mini UAV system is designed for data collec ... more iRobot Wins 286 Million Dollar US Army Contract 
Burlington MA (SPX) Dec 20, 2007iRobot has announced it has been awarded the xBot contract, a $286 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Under the terms of the contract, the Army could order up to 3,000 military robots, sp ... more Japan Test Fires Its First Raytheon-Built Standard Missile-3 
Kauai HI (SPX) Dec 20, 2007The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force successfully flight tested its first Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-built Standard Missile-3. The SM-3 Block IA missile engaged and destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target more than 60 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Personnel at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai launched the ballistic missile target while the crew of the Japane ... more Israel test fires improved Patriot missile 
Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 19, 2007Israel successfully test fired an improved Patriot missile as part of efforts to upgrade the country's radar system following last year's war against Hezbollah, the army said on Wednesday. The test-firing was conducted on Tuesday in southern Israel as "part of series of improvements conducted in the missile's operational system towards a new radar system that allows a wider cover and detecti ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 18, 2007The United States has accelerated the scrapping of its nuclear weapons, approving a "significant reduction" in the stockpile by the end of the year, the White House said Tuesday. "The president has approved a significant reduction in the US nuclear weapons stockpile to take effect by the end of 2007," following a major reduction plan first announced in 2004, a White House statement said. ... more Turkish army deals 'heavy blow' to Kurd rebels in Iraq 
Ankara (AFP) Dec 18, 2007Turkey's military said it dealt a "heavy blow" to Kurdish separatist rebels based in neighbouring northern Iraq in a cross-border ground operation on Tuesday and in air raids at the weekend. "A small-scale operation conducted by ground troops as part of hot pursuit... dealt a heavy blow" on a group of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants who had tried to infiltrate Turkey overnight, the ... more India tests surface-to-air missile: defence ministry 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Dec 19, 2007India on Wednesday tested its surface-to-air Akash missile twice, the latest in a series of tests of the short-range, defensive weapon, defence officials said. The missile blasted off from the Chandipur-on-Sea testing site in Orissa state on India's eastern coast in successful back-to-back afternoon tests, officials with India's Defence Research and Development Organisation said. Three t ... more Analysis: Venezuela helps Cuban refinery 
Miami (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 A Soviet-era oil refinery in Cuba is getting back online with the help of the communist island's close regional ally and petroleum benefactor, Venezuela. Later this week Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is scheduled to arrive in Cuba for the grand reopening of the Camilo Cienfuegos refinery, a relic of the former Soviet Union's sway over Cuba until its demise in the late 1980s. ... more Progress Energy Florida Signs Contract For Second Waste-Wood Plant 
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Dec 20, 2007As part of its ongoing commitment to renewable energy and developing technologies, Progress Energy Florida (PEF) has signed another contract with Biomass Gas and Electric LLC (BG and E) to purchase electricity from a second waste-wood biomass plant planned for Florida. BG and E, based in Atlanta, Ga., plans to build a power plant in north or Central Florida that will use waste wood product ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Dec 19, 2007Enhancing interoperability during European civil protection operations is the objective of an ESA project named Decision. In the context of this project, field trials were held in Chartres, France, focusing on satellite solutions to improve cooperation between civil protection agencies in crisis theatres - whether they occur in Europe or outside. The 'Decision' (DEvelopment of CIvil protec ... more Unique Porous Copper Structure Enables New Generation Of Military Micro-Detonators 
Athens GA (SPX) Dec 19, 2007Tiny copper structures with pores at both the nanometer and micron size scales could play a key role in the next generation of detonators used to improve the reliability, reduce the size and lower the cost of certain military munitions. Developed by a team of scientists from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the hig ... more Taiwan president pushes for naval build-up 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 18, 2007Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian on Tuesday pressed for a build-up of the island's seaborne defences, warning of a possible Chinese blockade during a trip to a naval base. Taiwan is moving slowly towards acquiring eight new submarines from the United States after gaining parliamentary approval for a two billion dollar (61.54 million US) "assessment fee" last week. "Since Taiwan is surro ... more Russia ready to renegotiate Cold War-era treaty: Lavrov 
Berlin (AFP) Dec 18, 2007Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote in an article Tuesday that Russia was prepared to renegotiate with the West on a Cold War-era treaty setting limits on troops and weapons that it froze this month. Lavrov said the suspension of compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) was an attempt to "revive" the treaty, taking into account new factors that could affect Russia's security. ... more Outside View: The future of INF 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 18, 2007 Twenty years ago, on Dec. 8, 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in Washington. It was the first-ever treaty on reducing available arsenals. It brought the elimination of an entire type of nuclear missiles and set a practical example of openness by introducing mutual in situ checks for 13 years. Today, the United States ... more
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