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Japan passes law to allow military use of space: official
Tokyo (AFP) May 21, 2008Japan passed a new law Wednesday allowing the use of space programmes for defence, an official said, reversing a decades-old policy amid increasing concern about military threats in the region. While Japan has no current plans for a new defence project in space, experts say the law could clear the way for the launch of early-warning satellites. The move comes amid growing concerns here a ... more Lockheed Martin-Built Trident Achieves Record 122 Successful Test Launches In A Row 
Sunnyvale, CA (SPX) May 22, 2008The U.S. Navy conducted a successful test launch this month of two Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the submerged submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) in the Pacific Ocean. The Trident II D5 missile now has achieved 122 consecutive successful test launches since 1989 - a record unmatched by any other large ... more Raytheon Awarded Contract For Key Command And Control Solution 
Fort Wayne IN (SPX) May 22, 2008Raytheon has been awarded a four-year, $76 million contract extension for a critical command and control solution currently deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Raytheon's Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System is the Army's system of record for planning, coordinating and controlling all mortars, close air support, naval gunfire, attack helicopters, offensive electronic warfare ... more Retired Admiral Thomas B Fargo Joins Northrop Grumman Board Of Directors 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2008Northrop Grumman has announced that retired U.S. Navy Admiral Thomas B. Fargo has been elected to the company's board of directors. With the retirement of board member Philip A. Odeen, Northrop Grumman's board totals 11 members, 10 of whom are non-employee directors. "Tom Fargo's 35 years of naval leadership and his subsequent private sector experience give him a global perspective that ... more Iron Man Underscores Critical Need For Armor Part One 
Washington (UPI) May 21, 2008 The hit movie "Iron Man" teaches low-tech as well as high-tech lessons about preparing armies for modern war. "Iron Man" was the most popular movie across the United States and the world in its first two weeks of circulation, and it is still going strong. The movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as genius, playboy inventor and arms manufacturer Tony Stark made $100 million at U.S. domestic ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) May 21, 2008 Russia's A-135 Anti-Ballistic Missile system, capable of coping with intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles, was developed and commissioned in 1995 and 1996, respectively. The system hinged on the Don-2N multi-role radar and a command computer inside a truncated tetrahedral pyramid. Silo-based missile interceptors were deploy ... more Poppy harvest huge financial boost for Taliban: US 
Washington (AFP) May 21, 2008Afghan Islamic militants get some 40 percent of their revenue from the poppy harvest used in opium production, the head of the NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday. "There are some troubled provinces in the south, Helmand being one of them ... and I attribute this as much to the illegal cultivation of poppy as I attribute to the insurgents," General Dan McNeill told journalists. ... more NKorea to blow up nuke plant tower in symbolic gesture: official 
Seoul (AFP) May 21, 2008North Korea plans to blow up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon atomic complex to symbolise its commitment to nuclear disarmament, a senior South Korean official said Wednesday. The tower will be toppled soon after the communist state hands over a long-awaited declaration of its nuclear activities, Seoul's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Sook told reporters. "It will come on the heels of the ... more Israel PM calls for naval blockade of Iran: report 
Jerusalem (AFP) May 21, 2008Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has urged the United States to impose a naval blockade on Iran to pressure it to stop its controversial nuclear programme, the Haaretz daily reported on Wednesday. Olmert raised the issue during a meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday with US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the newspaper said. "The present economic sanctions on Iran have exhaus ... more India, Pakistan sign prisoner agreement 
Islamabad (AFP) May 21, 2008Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan signed a pact Wednesday to give consular access to each others' prisoners but made no breakthrough in their dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir. Foreign ministers from both sides wrapped up the latest round of the four-year-old negotiations between the feuding neighbours, which resumed this week after a hiatus of several months caused by political ... more |
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University Park PA (SPX) May 22, 2008Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better position themselves to compete, say Penn State researchers in a recently released report from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. The report, "Broadband Internet Use in Rural Pennsylvania," exam ... more US ethanol policy under siege in food-for-fuel debate 
Washington (AFP) May 21, 2008Amid a surge in food prices blamed in part on US expansion of corn-based ethanol production, lawmakers, experts and industry officials are urging the government to rethink a new law mandating alternative fuels. The United States is the world's top producer of corn-based ethanol, which the administration of President George W. Bush sees as a way of reducing dependence on foreign oil and curb ... more Indonesia looks to Papua to expand palm oil plantations: official 
Jakarta (AFP) May 21, 2008The government of Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, is now looking at its vast easternmost provinces in Papua to expand its palm oil plantations, a senior official said Wednesday. "After Sumatra and Kalimantan became too dense for new palm oil plantations, the only land available is in Papua," the agriculture ministry's Director General for Plantations, Achmad Manggabarani ... more Hydrogen-powered phones on the horizon 
Paris (AFP) May 21, 2008French researchers said on Wednesday they had invented a hydrogen fuel cell as a backup power source for mobile phones, thus easing dependence on an electricity supply to charge the gadget. The miniature fuel cell uses a hydrogen-filled cartridge about the size of a small cigarette lighter, according to the press presentation made by the researchers at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEW). ... more EU parliament calls for more research into impact of biofuels 
Strasbourg (AFP) May 21, 2008The European Parliament on Wednesday called for more research into the impact of developing biofuels to combat climate change, a strategy which has been criticised amid a world food crisis. The EU parliament "advocates additional research into the impact of the policy of promoting biofuels and their effects on the increase of deforestation, the expansion of cultivated land and world food sup ... more
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