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US Installs Interim Commander In Iraq As Basra Fighting Rages
Basra, Iraq (AFP) March 29, 2008Eight people were killed in a new air strike in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra early on Saturday as clashes between troops and Shiite fighters continued for the fifth straight day. More than 180 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Shiite fighters and Iraqi and US-led coalition troops after a crackdown was launched against what the government called "criminal gangs" in ... more Raytheon Completes System Requirements Review For The Next GPS Control Segment 
Aurora CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Raytheon has completed the System Requirements Review (SRR) for the U.S. Air Force on the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Control Segment (OCX). This is the first milestone for the OCX program, satisfying the Air Force's system engineering standard acceptance criteria. Raytheon's successful completion of this milestone establishes a solid foundation and roadmap for the achievement ... more NATO publishes CFE treaty offer, as Russia summit approaches 
Brussels (AFP) March 28, 2008NATO nations made public Friday a long-standing offer to Russia aimed at getting Moscow to renew its commitment to a key Soviet-era arms pact, just days ahead of a key summit. Russia announced at midnight on December 11 that it was suspending participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, which limits the deployment of troops and military equipment. "This situation cannot ... more Lockheed Martin Team Achieves Major Milestone On US Navy's Mobile User Objective System 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Lockheed Martin has achieved a key milestone in the development of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) with the successful completion of static loads testing of the first satellite in the program constellation. MUOS will provide significantly improved and assured communications for U.S. mobile warfighters. The test, which validated the satellite's strength and ability to sustain its ... more NATO leaders seek help in Afghanistan as Russia showdown looms 
Brussels (AFP) March 30, 2008NATO leaders will seek support this week to drive a relentless Taliban insurgency out of Afghanistan despite a row over troop deployments, as a showdown looms with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a summit in Bucharest, attended by some 60 heads of state and government, the leaders will decide whether to invite in three new Balkans nations as members and assess stability in Kosovo since ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 The popular belief that there is a huge disparity between what U.S. private security contractors and military personnel are paid has been exposed as a myth yet again. Earlier this month the Pentagon released its Tenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation. The findings confirm that U.S. forces' pay rates are competitive. Military personnel are in the top 20 percent for pay when ... more Commentary: Afghan lament 
Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 "I don't care if it takes another 10 or 20 years, but we cannot allow Afghanistan to fail." So spoke Frank Carlucci, former U.S. defense secretary and national security adviser, at the Council on Foreign Relations. Failure, said Carlucci, would break the Atlantic Alliance and turn the world stage over to the next two global heavy hitters -- China and Russia. Most of the European members ... more China the dominant force at Mekong region summit 
Vientiane (AFP) March 30, 2008When six Mekong country premiers meet in Laos from Sunday, China will be the elephant in the room, having lavished highways and sports stadiums on its neighbours and expanded its search for resources. Booming China is fast emerging as the biggest economic patron of Laos, host of a two-day Greater Mekong Subregion summit, as well as of Cambodia and Myanmar, and it is a formidable force ... more Carrier Conflicts Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 With no full information available on details of the refitting of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov for service in the Indian navy as the Indian carrier Vikramaditya, it might be of interest to take a look at the ship itself and the plans for retrofitting. The Admiral Gorshkov was laid down in 1978 in Nikolayev as Project 1143.4. It is a Kiev-class heavy aircraft-carrying ... more BAE And USAF To Develop New Technologies For Mission Management 
Burlington MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008BAE Systems and the U.S. Air Force will jointly develop new software and information management tools to improve the situational awareness of, and mission management for, air commanders. Under a 30-month cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center, BAE Systems will work with the Air Force to identify and demonstrate technologies ... more |
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Washington (AFP) March 28, 2008US President George W. Bush for the first time publicly pressed China to hold talks with representatives of Tibet's spiritual leader after raising concerns over the bloody turmoil in the Himalayan territory. Bush said after talks with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the White House that he had told Chinese President Hu Jintao that it was in his country's interest that Beijing "sit do ... more 26 arrested, weapons seized from China monastery: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2008Police have arrested 26 people and seized guns and other weapons from a monastery in southwestern China whose Tibetan monks rioted this month, state-controlled Xinhua news agency said. Police found 30 guns, 498 bullets, four kilogrammes (2 pounds) of explosives and a "large amount" of knives on Friday in the Geerdeng monastery in Sichuan province, said the report issued late Saturday, which ... more Philippine oil company sets aside 26 mln dlrs for biofuel plantations 
Puerto Princesa, Philippines (AFP) March 28, 2008The state-run Philippine National Oil Company said Friday it has allocated 26 million dollars to establish plantations for jatropha -- a crop intended for biofuels. The PNOC-Alternative Fuels, the arm of the state company looking at finding alternative energy sources, said 1.1 billion pesos had been set aside but so far only 80 million pesos had been spent -- mainly ... more UQM Technologies Delivers Motor For Use In Fuel Cell Powered Switch Locomotive 
Frederick CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2008UQM Technologies has announced that it has delivered a PowerPhase 100 motor to Vehicle Projects for use in a fuel cell powered switch locomotive under development by a consortium including Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, the U.S. Department of Defense, and led by Vehicle Projects of Denver, Colorado. The UQM motor provides up to 55 kW of continuous power to drive the twin ... more New protest planned against rail tunnel through Italian Alps 
Chiomonte, Italy (AFP) March 30, 2008A multi-billion-euro project to bore a tunnel through the Italian Alps to create a high-speed rail link between Turin, Italy, and Lyon, France, will face a new protest on Sunday. In Chiomonte, in northwestern Italy's Susa Valley, diehard opponents of the project will line up to buy a symbolic square metre of land each along the route of the planned rail line. More than 1,250 activists in ... more
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