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US delays troop drawdown in Europe
Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2007Defense Secretary Robert Gates agreed to delay a drawdown of US troop levels in Europe, the Pentagon said Wednesday, following requests from commanders to maintain its military personnel levels there at around 40,000. Two brigades had been due to come back to the United States, but the decision has been made that they "will remain in Europe within EUCOM (US Europe Command) for a couple of mo ... more BMD Focus: South Korea's leisurely BMD 
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2007 In contrast to Japan, South Korea still has no ballistic missile defense system of its own operational. However, the success of the Japanese test is likely to give long-term plans to develop BMD in South Korea a boost, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said Wednesday. The Seoul daily noted that South Korea was in far greater danger of ballistic missile bombardment from North Korea than Japan wa ... more Turkey pre-warned US of raids on Kurd rebels: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2007Turkey informed the United States well in advance before launching weekend air raids into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebel bases, the Pentagon said Wednesday. "We had ample notification of the air strikes by the Turkish Air Force against PKK (Kurdish separatist group) positions in northern Iraq," spokesman Geoff Morrell said, confirming for the first time that Washington knew of Ankara's ... more Outside View: Arms control sense -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 20, 2007 As the rhetoric about basic treaties signed at the end of the Cold War -- the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty-1 -- START 1, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty -- INF, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty -- CFE -- intensifies, it is becoming clear that collective security in Europe and the world needs new approaches and perhaps a complete overhaul. The present conflict is based ... more Analysis: Missile defense testing advances 
Haifa, Israel (UPI) Dec 20, 2007 The Israel Defense Forces this week announced progress in testing a new Patriot missile launching system in southern Israel. "(The system's) updated design, developed by the Americans -- primarily with the help of lessons learned from the war in Iraq -- was installed and successfully tested with one of the Israeli Patriot missiles," the IDF said in a statement from the spokesman. ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 20, 2007An Indian court on Thursday ordered police to complete a probe into charges that a bribe was paid in a multi-billion dollar deal to buy Scorpene submarines from a French defence firm. The Delhi High Court told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete its inquiry within three months and report back to a two-judge bench. The judges also told the CBI to press criminal charges a ... more Pentagon orders 3,000 mine-resistant armored vehicles 
Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2007The Pentagon said Wednesday it has ordered more than 3,100 new mine-resistant armored vehicles worth some 2.6 billion dollars, with the aim of eventually owning a fleet of more than 15,000. The order will be filled by Force Protection Industries, BAE Systems, Armor Holdings and BAE, and International Military and Government, a subsidary of Navistar International, the Defense Department said ... more Walker's World: Is Europe doing better? 
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 The euro is riding high and the dollar is weak. European car sales boom while Detroit suffers. European growth rates are recovering and the United States is slipping toward recession. The Fed seems unable to do much about the U.S. financial crisis, while the European Central Bank has just swamped the market by pumping $500 billion in low-interest funding into liquidity and forced lendi ... more Analysis: Militants threaten oil industry 
Miami (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 Nigeria's leading militant group has called for its allies to band together to cripple the country's oil industry through attacks on oil installations. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta issued a statement to local reporters earlier this week saying all "genuine" militant groups in the West African country's oil-rich Niger Delta should wage full-blown attacks on oil i ... more The Quest For A New Class Of Superconductors 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 21, 2007Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University are suggesting another mechanism for the still-mysterious phenomenon. In a review published in Nature, researchers David Pines, Philippe Monthoux and Gilbert Lonzarich posit that superconductivity in cer ... more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Arianespace's sixth mission with the workhorse Ariane 5 in 2007 has been given its go-ahead for liftoff on December 20, following the Launch Readiness Review at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This review is one of the final milestones before every Ariane flight, and it verifies the readiness of all mission elements - including the launcher, its payload, the infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport, ... more Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract For GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a $96.7 million contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to provide the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R Series environmental satellites. GLM's ability to monitor lightning on a global scale will provide new insight into the formation, distribution, ... more US Senate approves 70 billion dollars in war funds 
Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2007The US House of Representatives was expected to vote Wednesday on a Senate-approved budget bill for 2008 that includes 70 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a boost to President George W. Bush, the Senate voted late Tuesday to approve the catch-all 555 billion dollar budget bill, adding extra war funds without any of the restrictions that Democrats hoped to pin on their ... more 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 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
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