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US Army Awards GD Contract To Produce Hydra-70 Rockets
Charlotte NC (SPX) Mar 27, 2008The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products a contract worth $166.4 million for the production of 2.75-inch Hydra-70 rockets. The award is part of a five-year requirements contract signed in 2005 that has a total potential value of more than $900 million if all options are exercised. General Dynamics Armament and ... more Elbit To Supply Skylark I UAV To France's Special Forces 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Mar 27, 2008Elbit Systems will supply Skylark I UAV systems to France's Special Forces, as it won a tender involving 10 of the leading UAV manufacturers worldwide. This contract marks Elbit Systems' first UAV contract with France. Haim Kellerman, General Manager of Elbit Systems UAV Division and Corporate Vice President said that there is a worldwide growing demand for UAVs for Special Forces ... more US military not planning bases in Uzbekistan: ambassador 
Tashkent (AFP) March 27, 2008The US military is not planning to use Uzbekistan as a base for operations in Afghanistan, Washington's ambassador to Tashkent said on Thursday, dispelling media reports about such plans. "The United States does not currently have a military base in Uzbekistan and has not asked for a military base in Uzbekistan... This issue is not on the agenda," ambassador Richard Norland, who spoke in ... more NKorea says it may slow disablement of nuke plants 
Seoul (AFP) March 28, 2008North Korea warned Friday that US delays in resolving the nuclear dispute could slow down work to disable its plutonium-producing atomic plants. A foreign ministry spokesman said the United States is hindering progress in six-party talks by raising "unjust demands." He rejected suspicions that the communist state has a secret enriched uranium bomb-making programme in addition to its ... more US Army suspends suspect Afghan munitions deal 
Washington (AFP) March 27, 2008A defense contractor reportedly led by a 22-year-old has been suspended from doing business with the US government for allegedly supplying Afghan security forces with old Chinese-made munitions in violation of its contract and US law, officials said Thursday. Until an investigation has been completed, AEY Inc. and its president Efraim Diveroli, have been suspended from future contracting ... more |
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Dayton, Ohio (AFP) March 27, 2008US President George W. Bush called on the Iraqi government Thursday to shoulder the full financial burden of its security forces "soon." "Now Iraq's budget covers three-quarters of the cost of its security forces, which is a total of more than nine billion dollars in 2008, and soon Iraq should and we expect them to shoulder the full burden of their security forces," Bush said in a speech ... more Military Matters: Iraq's new storm 
Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2008 Most wars move not at a steady pace but in a series of fits and starts. For about half a year, we have been enjoying something of a lull in the war in Iraq. Anything that reduces casualties is to be welcomed. But the bulletins' claims that the downward trend in violence will continue should be seen more as political vaporing than military analysis. Events begin to suggest that the lull is ... more Analysis: West questioned over Afghan aid 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 27, 2008 While Afghanistan is in dire need of monetary support, Western powers are not delivering their promised aid, a report found. Up to $10 billion, or 40 percent, of the entire aid promised to Afghanistan has not been delivered, thus jeopardizing economic progress and security in the country, according to a report entitled "Falling Short," published by the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghanistan ... more US-led coalition forces bomb Shiite militia in Basra 
Basra, Iraq (AFP) March 28, 2008US-led coalition warplanes dropped bombs on Shiite militia positions in Basra overnight, directly entering the fray for the first time since the Iraqi army launched a crackdown in the southern city, a British military spokesman said on Friday. Two bombing missions were carried out against specific targets, Major Tom Holloway told AFP. "It was on identified rocket teams in the city and th ... more NKorea raises stakes in nuke dispute with missile launches 
Seoul (AFP) March 28, 2008North Korea raised the stakes Friday in its nuclear disputes with South Korea and the United States, test-firing several missiles and warning it may slow down work to disable atomic plants. The actions come one day after the communist state expelled South Korean officials from a joint industrial estate, in protest at the new conservative government's tougher policy towards Pyongyang. ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 28, 2008A medical student places a chest tube in a patient lying on an operating table, while another student conducts a colonoscopy. Everything is just as it would be in a real OR or treatment room, except that the patients won't be harmed or complain if mistakes are made - they're robots. These high-tech, electronically outfitted mannequins are equipment in the new $5 million medical and surgical ... more Monks defy China crackdown to protest in Lhasa 
Beijing (AFP) March 27, 2008Monks from one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred temples defied China's crackdown to protest in front of visiting foreign reporters in Lhasa on Thursday, voicing their support for the Dalai Lama. The embarrassing protest came as China again refused to hold talks with the exiled spiritual leader, after US President George W. Bush added his voice to calls for dialogue in an effort to solve the ... more China to clamp down on map websites: report 
Shanghai (AFP) March 27, 2008The Chinese government will clamp down on mapping websites and other online geographical information it fears could undermine national security, state media reported Thursday. Eight government agencies have said they will tighten supervision of geographical information available online, the official China Daily reported. Authorities will close down most of the nearly 10,000 online website ... more Researchers Developing System To Efficiently Convert Biomass To Ethanol 
Ames IA (SPX) Mar 28, 2008Iowa State University researchers are developing an integrated system of thermochemical and catalytic technologies to efficiently produce ethanol from plant biomass. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced they'll support the research with a two-year grant of up to $944,899. The departments are awarding $18.4 million over three years to 21 ... more Riverstone Invests In Shelter Bay Energy 
New York NY (SPX) Mar 28, 2008Riverstone Holdings has announced it will provide capital to fund the growth of Shelter Bay Energy, a privately held exploration and production company focused in the Bakken light oil play in southeast Saskatchewan. The investment is part of Shelter Bay's plans to raise C$625 million. Riverstone is joined by Kelso and Company, Crescent Point Energy Trust, Goldman Sachs, and Trafelet and Company. ... more
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