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Raytheon To Supply Airborne Low Frequency Sonar System For MH-60R Helicopter
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Raytheon has received a $63.4 million U.S. Navy contract for AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar, the primary undersea warfare sensor for the U.S. Navy's MH-60R multi-mission helicopter. AN/AQS-22 provides critical undersea warfare mission support capabilities, including submarine detection, tracking, localization, classification, acoustic intercept, underwater communication, and enviro ... more Raytheon Standard Missile-2 Intercept Shows Near-Term, Sea-Based Terminal Capability 
Kauai, HI (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Two Raytheon built Standard Missile-2 Block IV missiles successfully intercepted and destroyed a short-range ballistic missile target above the Pacific Ocean June 5. The successful engagement demonstrated a near- term, sea-based capability for stopping threat ballistic missiles in their terminal or final phase of flight. The short-range ballistic missile target was launched from the Mobile ... more Aegis Destroys Ballistic Missile In Terminal Phase 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 06, 2008An Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a short- range unitary ballistic missile target in the terminal phase of its trajectory during a recent test at the Pacific Missile Range off the coast of Hawaii. This mission was the first to use the latest version of the Aegis BMD weapon system - Aegis BMD 3.6.1. - which adds to the prov ... more Northrop Grumman To Modify CERES Sensor For NPOESS Prep Mission To Improve Climate Data Payload 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by NASA Langley Research Center to make modifications to a sensor that helps determine the influence of clouds on the Earth's temperature. The sensor will be integrated onto the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Mission (NPP), scheduled for launch by NASA in 2010. The Clouds and the Earth's R ... more Boeing Fires New Thin-Disk Laser Achieving Solid-State Laser Milestone 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Boeing fired its new thin-disk laser system repeatedly in recent tests, achieving the highest known simultaneous power, beam quality and run time for any solid-state laser to date. In each laser firing at Boeing's facility in West Hills, Calif., the high-energy laser achieved power levels of over 25 kilowatts for multi-second durations, with a measured beam quality suitable for a tactical ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2008 An unusually camouflaged plane catches visitors' eyes at the ILA-2008 Air Show in Berlin. It is an upgraded Soviet-made MiG-29SD fighter plane from the Slovakian air force that meets all NATO standards. The issue of using Soviet military equipment cropped up a long time ago, following the merger of the two Germanies. The new Germany was the one to demonstrate two possible ways of deali ... more Walker's World: A NATO test for Bush 
Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2008 President Bush's European tour next week was supposed to be an almost ceremonial event, a farewell tour to old allies with whom most broken fences had been patched up and mended. But NATO's new warning to Russia over the looming crisis with the former Soviet republic of Georgia puts the Bush trip into an ominous new context. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has demand ... more Analysis: Armament makes world insecure 
Berlin (UPI) Jun 3, 2008 A group of German security and peace researchers warns that current armament tendencies may pose greater threats to the world than the Cold War did. The growing amount of money spent on weapons and wars "nurtures mutual distrust, points to illusions when it comes to military conflict solutions, and hasn't been contained by either effective armament control or a watchful public," Andreas ... more Commentary: Rainbow -- or Guns of August? 
Washington (UPI) Jun 3, 2008 In October 2005, two months after he had become president, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - or as Jay Leno calls the tongue-twister "I'm-a-dinner-jacket" - drew world attention when he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Denials were slow in coming. Various Iranian experts said he had been misquoted when he painted the broad brushstrokes of history when a purely Jewish state would cease ... more Military Matters: Reform history -- Part 1 
Washington (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 When the world was young and hope dared live in Washington, a small group of people put together something called the Military Reform Movement. Its purpose was to measure U.S. defense policies and programs by the standard of what works in combat rather than who benefits financially. Launched in the 1970s, it peaked in the early 1980s and was gone by 1990. Why did it fail? It failed because, in ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 30, 2008 U.S. warship designers for decades have ignored the fundamental lesson of the hit movie "Iron Man" - armored protection matters. Audiences watching the spectacular movie starring Robert Downey Jr. are blown away by Iron Man's fantastic strength, his speed and his computer-directed ultra-precision weapons systems. But none of these would matter if Iron Man couldn't take a hit. His invul ... more Dogs of War: Back to Africa 
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2008 Where does the future lie for the private military industry? Those who watch the industry closely have noted it tends to migrate periodically. In the beginning, mirroring human evolution, the industry emerged in Africa. The progenitor for many of today's private security firms was the South Africa-based Executive Outcomes, which fought in Angola and Sierra Leone. (Incidentally, those t ... more Atomic Market: What Benazir knew 
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2008 A new book confirms what has to be one of the more unusual exchanges of nuclear information outside of outright spying and helps explain how Pakistani nuclear weapons knowledge made its way to North Korea. In late 1993 Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister of Pakistan, carried critical nuclear data on CDs in her overcoat to Pyongyang in 1993 and brought back North Korea's missile informat ... more Commentary: Tower of Babble Rabble 
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2008 Former White House Press secretary Scott McClellan is excoriated for stating the obvious. The Iraq War, he writes in his memoirs titled "What Happened in the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign." This, in turn, was designed to "manipulate public opinion" in such a way as to downplay "the ma ... more Analysis: China's fighter planes -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) May 29, 2008 Front-line combat units of China's People's Liberation Army air force will have at least 112 J-10 fighter jets by the end of the year, an analysis of current deployments and in-progress production reveals. There are multiple indications that the 2nd Regiment of the No. 1 Division of the People's Liberation Army air force has received a full complement of the domestic-made, next-generati ... more
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