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SMArt Munition For British And Australian Armed Forces
Nurnberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2008Intelligent artillery munition SMArt 155 valued at more than 120 Million Euros was ordered by the armed forces of Great Britain and Australia at GIWS mbH, a joint subsidiary of Rheinmetall AG, Dusseldorf, and Diehl Stiftung and Co. KG, Nurnberg. Production and integration is carried out by Rheinmetall and Diehl, both 50% shareholders of GIWS. The sensor fused munition SMArt 155, DM 702A1 ... more Northrop Grumman Names Jeffrey Palombo To Head New Land Forces Division 
Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Jan 08, 2008Northrop Grumman has appointed Jeffrey Q. Palombo as sector vice president and general manager of the company's newly-created Land Forces Division, effective immediately. In his new position, Palombo will have executive responsibility for land forces, communications systems and laser systems programs at Northrop Grumman facilities in Apopka, Fla.; Baltimore; Cincinnati; Garland, Texas; Gaithersb ... more US still confident of missile shield deal with Poland 
Washington (AFP) Jan 7, 2008The United States said Monday it remains confident it will be able to strike a deal to install a missile shield in NATO and EU member Poland, despite misgivings from Warsaw. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the United States would address Polish concerns over US plans to station a battery of interceptor missiles in Poland and an associated radar in the Czech Republic by 2012. ... more Analysis: Bush goes into heart of beast 
Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2008As President Bush is about to begin an eight-day tour of the Middle East -- part of the post-Annapolis, Md., effort to get the peace process moving -- al-Qaida's so-called American spokesman asked followers of the terror organization to greet the American president with "bombs and booby-trapped vehicles." In a 50-minute video released through Web sites sympathetic to al-Qaida, Californ ... more Iranian speedboats menaced US navy vessels in Gulf: US 
Washington (AFP) Jan 7, 2008Armed Iranian speedboats swarmed three US warships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, radioing a threat to blow them up and sending tensions flaring ahead of President George W. Bush's trip to the Mideast, US officials said Monday. "I'm coming at you and you will blow up in a couple of minutes," a Defense Department official quoted the radio transmission as saying. Crew aboard two of the ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2008The year 2007 was a year when several major powers served notice that U.S. weapons superiority in every field and class wasn't going to remain an uncontested monopoly. China continued to out-build the United States in submarines by factors of 10-to-1 or even 14-to-1 per year, largely because good, small and medium-size diesel subs are far cheaper, faster and easier to produce than enorm ... more Walker's World: Talking to Iran? 
Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2008Shortly before Christmas, over dinner in his palace, one of the ruling sheiks of the United Arab Emirates told this reporter he had not been at all surprised by the release of the National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program back in 2003. "We were warned by Rafsanjani to expect a very big, very surprising announcement out of Washington," the sh ... more Lockheed Martin Receives New Order Combat-Proven Hellfire II Missiles 
Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 08, 2008Lockheed Martin has received a $29 million production order from the U.S. Army for the combat-proven precision-strike HELLFIRE II air-to-ground missile. The order represents the final option under the U.S. Army�s HELLFIRE II Buy 13 contract, which at $305.9 million is the largest single buy in the history of the HELLFIRE II program. The final exercised option for Buy 13 is for 431 rounds, ... more Researchers ask: Is China the sleeping giant of biotech 
Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2008China's biotech sector accounts for just a sliver of its pharmaceutical industry and operates under the cloud of a massive review of licenses issued under a regulator executed last year for accepting bribes. Even so, experts say, Chinese purveyors of genetically engineered drugs and vaccines -- targeting everything from cancer to Alzheimer's -- are growing at a frenzied pace and are likely t ... more China life expectancy rises as medical spending increases: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2008The life expectancy of China's 1.3 billion people is on the rise, thanks partly to increased spending on health care, state media said Monday. China's average life expectancy rose from 71.4 years in 2000 to 73 in 2005, Xinhua news agency said, citing a report issued by the Ministry of Health. Other health indicators have also shown marked improvement in recent years, including the infant ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 07, 2008Earlier this year, NASA researcher Dan Irwin stepped off a plane in Guatemala and found, to his surprise, that he was running for mayor. It seems the people of San Andres had put his name on the ballot. Irwin respectfully declined, but he was touched. If you ask him why the residents of rural San Andres are crazy about him, Irwin, a humble soul, shrugs his shoulders and says, "Everyone has a hob ... more Antarctic ballooning hits milestone 
Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2008The U.S. National Science Foundation reached a milestone in scientific ballooning by launching three Antarctica flights in a single summer. The milestone was reached in collaboration with National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NSF said Friday in a release. Scientists from the United States, Japan, South Korea, France and other countries are using the long-duration sub-orb ... more NOAA To Ensure Global Navigation Satellite System Accuracy 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 07, 2008NOAA will lead an international effort to pinpoint the locations of more than 40 global positioning satellites in Earth orbit, which is vital to ensuring the accuracy of GPS data that millions worldwide rely upon every day for safe navigation and commerce. NOAA personnel will compile and analyze satellite orbit data from 10 analysis centers worldwide to ensure the accuracy of GPS informati ... more Analysis: China's ability to sustain war 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 4, 2008Should a conflict break out across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwanese forces would face a grave shortage of ammunition after just seven days of fighting. Even though China has a much greater stockpile of ammunition than Taiwan, it would also encounter similar problems in a sustained conflict. The PLA Air Force fleet of third generation fighters comprises 281 Su-30s, Su-27 SKs, J-11A/Bs and 64 ... more BAE Systems Awarded Contract To Evaluate Missile Defense System On US Passenger Aircraft 
Nashua NH (SPX) Jan 07, 2008BAE Systems has received a $29 million award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to test an infrared aircraft missile defense system on passenger aircraft. The tests will evaluate the system's compatibility with daily passenger airline operations and maintenance. The latest contract is for the third phase of the DHS counter-MANPADS program's research development activities. There ... more
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