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Raytheon And US Navy Sign Phalanx Close-In Weapon System Contract
Louisville KY (SPX) May 19, 2008Raytheon has been awarded a $61.1 million U.S. Navy contract to purchase radar upgrade kits and other spare parts for the Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems. Sixty- eight radar kits will be procured for use with the sea-based Phalanx and the Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System. Phalanx is a rapid-fire, computer-controlled radar and 20 mm gun system that automatically acquires, tracks ... more Boeing Receives Contract To Further Develop Dual-Role Missile 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 19, 2008Boeing has been awarded a $5.2 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract to demonstrate the effectiveness of Guidance Integrated Fuzing (GIF) technology developed under the Seeker Integrated Target Endgame Sensor (SITES) program. "This fuzing capability for SITES will reduce weight and save space in the Joint Dual Role Air Dominance Missile (JDRADM)," said David Moos, Boeing ... more Boeing Opens New EA-18G Growler Support Center 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 19, 2008Boeing held a grand opening for its new EA-18G Growler Support Center (GSC) at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., Tuesday in preparation for the delivery of the first EA-18G Growler to the U.S. Navy fleet. The center will provide technical and logistics support for the Navy's premier airborne electronic attack aircraft. The Navy will accept the first fleet Growler at Naval Air Station ... more Boeing Completes Six Years Of On-Time Minuteman III Missile Guidance Set Deliveries 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 19, 2008Boeing has achieved six years of consecutive on-time deliveries for the Minuteman III missile program with the recent delivery of the 593rd missile guidance set (MGS) to the U.S. Air Force. Boeing delivered the guidance set Feb. 27 as part of the Minuteman III Guidance Replacement Program (GRP). The MGS has accumulated more than 15.6 million operational hours since its first deployment in ... more Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game 
New Delhi (UPI) May 15, 2008 India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. India's elite Intelligence Bureau sent a report to the Interior Ministry in which it charged that the lack of alertness displayed by the paramilitary ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 17, 2008The United States plans to build a vast, new detention camp at its main military base in Afghanistan, a Defense Department spokesman said on Saturday. "I can confirm there are indeed plans to build a new detention facilty at Bagram airfield," spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wright told AFP. "And the overall size is expected to be 40 acres (16.2 ha)." The move came because "our existing ... more Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two 
Washington (UPI) May 16, 2008 One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. But the relationship is far more complicated than that. It is incontrovertibly true that the ... more World powers work out details of new offer to Iran 
Washington (AFP) May 16, 2008Six world powers have completed the details of a "refreshed" offer they will present to Iran in an effort to persuade it to halt its controversial nuclear activities, a US official said Friday. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China agreed earlier this month to make a new offer to Iran, but a date has yet to be set for it to be delivered to the Islamic republic. ... more SKorea nuclear envoy heads for talks in Washington 
Seoul (AFP) May 18, 2008South Korea's chief nuclear envoy left Sunday for talks in Washington amid hopes that North Korea would soon submit a long-awaited declaration on its nuclear programme. Kim Sook will take part in a trilateral meeting there with US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill and Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki, a foreign ministry official said. The meeting comes after Washington promised to se ... more Pakistan says coalition in Afghanistan launched missile strike 
Khar, Pakistan (AFP) May 17, 2008Pakistan on Friday said that coalition forces in Afghanistan earlier this week launched a missile strike into Pakistan's tribal region, killing 14 people. "We confirm that the two missiles were fired from a drone which belongs to coalition forces deployed in Afghanistan," Pakistan's chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP, referring to Wednesday's strike. "We have con ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) May 16, 2008 The German government has accused foreign intelligence services -- blaming mainly Russian agents -- of having spied on German companies. "In the course of the global competition over market share and market dominance, industrial espionage is becoming increasingly important," a new government report on terrorism, political extremism and intelligence found. This industrial espionage hurts ... more Over Three Million Burmese Potentially Affected By Cyclone 
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 19, 2008As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma ... more China fights to stave off disease amid miracle quake rescues 
Shifang, China (AFP) May 18, 2008China ramped up efforts on Saturday to stave off disease for millions of earthquake victims, as more miracle rescues amid the rubble offered hope in an increasingly desperate battle to save lives. Five days after the enormous earthquake that the government estimates killed more than 50,000 people, there were rising concerns over potential disease outbreaks among the nearly five million ... more China's journalists roam quake zone, but still on leash 
Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2008China's journalists have enjoyed a brief window of freedom in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake but the nation's communist rulers are still firmly shaping news coverage of the tragedy. For a country better known for covering up disasters, the access and continuous reporting from the front lines of the earthquake in remote Sichuan province by China's news hounds has impressed more than ... more American tourist joins pandas in 'surreal' earthquake ordeal 
Beijing (AFP) May 17, 2008An American tourist who survived China's deadly earthquake says he is not only lucky to be alive -- he had a "surreal" experience of sharing the moment with giant pandas. Robert Litwak, 55, a member of the World Wildlife Fund, was stranded for nearly three days near the famous Wolong giant panda breeding ground in southwestern Sichuan province. When the 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck ... more
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