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Computational Analysis Improves I-500 Warhead Survivability
Eglin AFB FL (AFPN) Jun 20, 2008Air Force Research Laboratory engineers here conducted dynamic computational analysis geared toward improving the survivability of a proposed I-500 warhead design. Ongoing computational analysis suggests that resulting changes should significantly increase the warhead's structural survivability during its penetration into hardened targets. The new design is slated for sled test during ... more US taps Lithuania as alternative to Poland for missile shield plan 
Warsaw (AFP) June 19, 2008The United States has begun to sound out Lithuania as a possible alternative host for a controversial missile shield as talks with Poland on the project grind on. After a Polish minister said Tuesday that talks between Washington and Vilnius were indeed underway, US officials confirmed that chief missile defence negotiator John Rood had visited Lithuania, stressing all the while there were ... more US Official To Discuss Kyrgyz Military Airbase Expansion 
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2008The expansion of a U.S. military airbase in Kyrgyzstan is expected to top the agenda of a visit by the U.S. assistant secretary for South and Central Asian affairs to the former Soviet republic, Kyrgyz media said on Wednesday. George Krol will arrive in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on June 19 to discuss issues of regional security and the Manas base, currently rented by the U.S. ... more Split over US nuclear deal may trigger early Indian polls 
New Delhi (AFP) June 19, 2008India looks headed for early elections due to a worsening split between the ruling Congress party and its left-wing allies over a nuclear deal with Washington, reports and officials said Thursday. A government source told AFP that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared set to go ahead with implementing the pact with the United States, despite fierce objections from the communists who prop ... more Thompson Files: How the USAF fell so far 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Jun 19, 2008 The forced resignation of the U.S. Air Force's top civilian and uniformed leaders earlier this month is the latest chapter in a chronicle of decline that has been unfolding for decades. The political influence of U.S. air power has gradually ebbed since the Cold War ended, and the resulting vacuum has been filled by representatives from other services, most notably the U.S. Navy. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 19, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Asia next week to pursue negotiations on North Korea's nuclear disarmament as confidence for a breakthrough grows, a spokesman said Thursday. With President George W. Bush due to leave office in six months, Rice is looking for a diplomatic success despite criticism from once-dominant hardliners who had pressed the US administration to ... more US removes Chinese firm from sanctions blacklist over Iran 
Washington (AFP) June 19, 2008The US Treasury Department said Thursday it was lifting an asset freeze on a Chinese company and its US subsidiary after they were blacklisted for aiding Iran's missile program. The department's office of foreign assets control "removed the China Great Wall Industry Corporation and its US subsidiary, G.W. Aerospace, from the list of 'specially designated nationals,'" a statement said. ... more Pentagon says its on trail of missing nuclear components: report 
Washington (AFP) June 19, 2008US military authorities are unable to find hundreds of nuclear missile components, The Financial Times reported in its online edition Thursday, but the Pentagon shrugged it off as simple record-keeping woes. The US air force has not located these registered components in its inventories, according to a Pentagon report which, according to some sources, puts the number of missing components at ... more No direct talks with Syria this year: Israeli defence minister 
Paris (AFP) June 19, 2008Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday he did not expect direct Israeli-Syrian peace talks before next year, and not without US sponsorship. During a visit to France, Barak described ongoing indirect talks between Israel and Syria as "preliminary contacts, not yet negotiations" in an interview to Le Monde daily. "I don't think that we will have negotiations before the end of ... more Lockheed Martin's Littoral Combat Ship Combat Management System Readies For Sea 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated key shipboard combat system components aboard the U.S. Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, PCU Freedom, with COMBATSS-21, the ship's core combat management system. Key components integrated with COMBATSS-21 include the radar, gun weapon system, missile launcher, decoy launcher, and electronic warfare system. The successful integration and ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2008The Jason-1 spacecraft will make its 30,000th science orbit this week. Revolution number 30,000 will begin at 10:27 UTC (3:27 a.m. PDT) on June 14th, 2008 and will be completed at 12:19 UTC (5:19 a.m. PDT). From its vantage point 1,336 kilometers (830 miles) above Earth, Jason-1 uses its radar altimeter to precisely measure the topography of the ocean surface. Jason-1 was launched December ... more Satellite for tracking sea levels set for launch 
Washington (AFP) June 19, 2008The French-US satellite Jason 2, slated for lift-off Friday from California, will provide precise monitoring of rising sea levels and currents and track the effects of climate change. Weather permitting, the high-tech oceanography space lab will be launched aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1946 GMT, when a nine-minute window of opportunity for the launch opens. ... more World Bank expects Chinese economic slowdown 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008The World Bank said Thursday it expected China's economic growth to fall to single digits in 2008 for the first time in six years, while inflation would be higher than previously forecast. "China's economic growth has moderated to a more sustainable pace," the bank said in its quarterly report on China, adding it expected 9.8 percent expansion this year, down from 11.9 percent in 2007. ... more Sensor Technologies Conferences To Be Held In Wales 
Cardiff, UK (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Optoelectronics-rich Wales will provide a fitting setting for the co-located SPIE Europe Remote Sensing and SPIE Europe Security and Defence conferences to be held in Cardiff 15-18 September. Wales' First Minister and Assembly Member Rhodri Morgan will open the conferences with a talk on the region's thriving private- and public-sector optics and photonics community. ... more China improving air drop ability after quake setbacks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008The Chinese military has begun drills to improve its ability to parachute into disaster areas after its troops struggled during last month's earthquake, state media reported. The training, the first of its kind in China, began Wednesday and involved eight large aircraft delivering soldiers, vehicles, radar and other equipment, the Xinhua news agency said. The People's Liberation Army has ... more
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