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Kiev Radar Row Set To Inflame Tensions Part One
Moscow (UPI) Feb 5, 2008The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's Parliament, has approved the Jan. 25, 2008, decision of the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, to denounce the agreement with Ukraine on the use of its early warning radars. The bill will be forwarded to Russian President Vladimir Putin for approval. If Putin signs the relevant decree and the document is published in the offic ... more The Case For Future Combat System Funding 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Feb 5, 2008With several of the big networking initiatives begun during Donald Rumsfeld's tenure as defense secretary beginning to implode, many observers are curious why the U.S. Army remains so committed to its Future Combat Systems program. That vast collection of communication links and next-generation vehicles is the centerpiece of Army modernization, but the service has never found a compelli ... more Afghanistan May Become Failed State As Insurgency Spreads 
London (AFP) Feb 5, 2008Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state if NATO troops do not defeat the Taliban, boosting Islamist extremism worldwide, a study said Tuesday, also warning that the West lacked resources. The International Institute for Strategic Studies lamented growing signs that the insurgency was expanding from the south of Afghanistan into northern provinces, with rebels learning lessons from ... more Global arms firms make a beeline for India's largest arms fair 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 5, 2008A race for Indian military contracts worth billions of dollars will heat up this month when the world's top arms makers descend on South Asia's biggest defence fair. About 300 international weapons companies from 30 countries have signed up for the four-day "DefExpo" in New Delhi from February 16, and there are expectations of several big-ticket announcements. "This is the biggest ever d ... more Bush Requests Half A Trillion Dollars For Next Defense Budget 
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2008proposed Monday a 515.4-billion-dollar defense budget, finishing out his presidency with record levels of military spending propelled by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The White House also asked for an additional 70 billion dollars as a downpayment on the cost of another year of military operations in the Middle East. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the ... more |
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Orlando FL (SPX) Feb 06, 2008The governments of France and the United States have signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance for the sale of Lockheed Martin's precision-strike laser-guided Hellfire II missiles to France. The agreement authorizes the sale of multiple warhead variants of the modular Hellfire II, with options, for the French Army's Helicoptere d'Appui Destruction (HAD) Tiger attack helicopter fleet. Contrac ... more BAE To Radar USAF Warning Receivers For C-130J Transports 
Greenlawn NY (SPX) Feb 06, 2008BAE Systems has been awarded a $28.1 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide radar warning receiver systems for new-production C-130J transport aircraft. BAE Systems' AN/ALR-56M radar warning receiver detects a broad range of incoming radar signals and identifies and characterizes their origin as friend or foe, alerting the pilot when it detects threats to the aircraft. Under the contra ... more Iran Iran Tests Sounding Rocket And Unveils First Homemade Satellite 
Tehran (RIA Novosti) Feb 05, 2008Iran successfully launched on Monday a sounding rocket as a preliminary step toward sending its first homemade research satellite into orbit, national media said. Iran's state television earlier reported that Iranian scientists had built the Omid (Hope) research satellite under a project that took 10 years to complete. The satellite was unveiled on Monday during an official ceremony and may be l ... more Raytheon Completes Second Engine Test Of Joint Standoff Weapon Extended Range 
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2008The Joint Standoff Weapon Extended Range missile moved one step closer to powered flight testing when Raytheon Company successfully conducted a second ground test of the JSOW-ER engine at the facility of Hamilton Sundstrand, a United Technologies company, late last year. The Raytheon- and Hamilton Sundstrand-funded test evaluated a flush inlet, engine and exhaust design. This test keeps th ... more T-ray Breakthrough Signals Next Generation Of Security Sensors 
London UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2008A new generation of sensors for detecting explosives and poisons could be developed following new research into a type of radiation known as T-rays, published in Nature Photonics. The research shows that these T-rays, electromagnetic waves in the far infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum that have a wavelength 500 times longer than visible light, can be guided along the surface of a spec ... more |
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London (AFP) Feb 5, 2008British engineers unveiled plans Tuesday for a hypersonic jet which could fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours. The A2 plane, designed by engineering company Reaction Engines based in Oxfordshire, southern England, could carry 300 passengers at a top speed of almost 4,000 mph (6,400 kmh), five times the speed of sound. The LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts an ... more Intel to deliver first computer chip with two billion transistors 
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 4, 2008Intel announced on Monday that it has created a two-billion-transistor computer chip that will give supercomputers "a leap in performance and capabilities." The world's largest maker of microprocessors says its new Itanium brand chip, codenamed "Tukwila," built for supercomputers increases the power of machines more than twofold and will be available near the end of the year. ... more NIST building hydrogen pipeline laboratory 
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Feb 5, 2008The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is constructing a new laboratory that's designed to test materials for hydrogen pipelines. Widely used in industrial processing, hydrogen is attractive as a fuel because it burns cleanly without carbon emissions and can be derived from domestic sources, researchers noted. But long-term exposure to hydrogen can cause pipelines to be ... more Flapping-wing airplanes are envisioned 
Ann Arbor, Mich. (UPI) Feb 5, 2008U.S. scientists are studying birds, bats and insects and their aerobatic efficiencies as a step toward designing flapping-wing airplanes. University of Michigan engineers said such planes of the future might have wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards and the aerodynamics of flying animals that can outperform current man-made aircraft. For example, the engineers note the ... more Geotimes Explores For Oil Around The World 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month's cover story "Oil Around the World." Land disputes, foreign sanctions, terrorism, war and economics play into the exploration and recovery of the world's oil and natural gas reserves. Be it Libya, Iraq or Norway, the South China ... more
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