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Outside View: Air combat co-op -- Part One
Moscow (UPI) Aug 1, 2008 On July 14-20, Farnborough, a town in Hampshire, England, 30 miles west of London, hosted the 46th International Air Show, the largest such event featuring the latest achievements of the global aircraft industry. Spectators liked the prototype Boeing B-787 Dreamliner, which remained grounded during the show, and the low-noise Airbus A-380 jumbo jet, which thrilled everyone with its ... more Russia test fires strategic missile: navy 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Russia on Friday successfully test fired a strategic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, hitting a target on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, a navy official told AFP. "The missile head section, launched from the Barents Sea, reached its target at the Kura exercise ground in Kamchatka," said Igor Dygalo, an officer at Russia's naval command centre. He said the ... more Thompson Files: Fuzed weapons are good 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Aug 1, 2008 Some of the saddest stories to come out of recent military conflicts concern children who found the unexploded remains of cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are designed to neutralize a wide area by carpeting it with many small explosive devices, called sub-munitions. But some of the sub-munitions on older cluster bombs fail to detonate, and can lie unnoticed for months or years until ... more Contract Supports Development Of UAV Test Procedures 
Athens GA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has won a contract to support development of a roadmap designed to improve the testing and evaluation of unmanned and autonomous systems for the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). "The field of unmanned and autonomous systems is evolving rapidly, and new techniques are needed to effectively test and evaluate the capabilities that are ... more Defense Support Program Satellite Decommissioned 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008The United States Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) Flight 19 satellite, built by Northrop Grumman, was decommissioned following nine years of service. Northrop Grumman personnel stationed at the company's Telemetry and Orbital Test Station in Redondo Beach, Calif., terminated the downlink to Flight 19 at the Air Force's command. Flight 19 was launched on April 9, 1999 on a Titan ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 1, 2008 Democratic presidential standard-bearer Sen. Barack Obama is currently in a tough race with a hard-charging opponent, the Republican Party's Sen. John McCain, a man who seems to corner the market on patriotic fervor. Americans like McCain, R-Ariz. The reason is simple. Americans enjoy celebrating politicians who take inflexible positions on defense and foreign policy issues. ... more Israeli foreign minister urges new sanctions on Iran 
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2008Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a contender to become prime minister, urged the international community on Sunday to act quickly on new sanctions against Iran, saying that Tehran views any hesitation as weakness. Speaking on CNN, Livni said that "time is of the essence" in challenging Iran's nuclear drive after Tehran let pass a US deadline this weekend to respond to an international ... more Iran will use force to defend nuclear drive: Ahmadinejad 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that his country will use force against its "enemies" to defend its nuclear drive, state television reported. "For them, subjects like the nuclear issue are pretexts. The key reason for the hostility of the enemies in the past 30 years against Iran is that they want us to pull back so that they can say we have given in," Ahmadinejad said. ... more Iran tells Syria it is serious in nuclear talks 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 3, 2008President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday told visiting Syrian president and staunch regional ally Bashar al-Assad that Tehran is serious about finding a practical solution to the nuclear crisis. "We are serious in talks and we want the talks to be based on the law so it will bear practical results. We hope that other sides are serious too," Ahmadinejad told Assad in remarks broadcast live on ... more International soldier killed in Kabul blast 
Kabul (AFP) Aug 3, 2008A bomb struck a convoy of the US-led military coalition on the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday, killing one soldier and wounding another, the force said. Afghan police said the bomb was planted on a dirt road and appeared to have been remotely detonated. "A coalition service member was killed and another wounded when their convoy struck an IED (improvised explosive device) this morning in ... more |
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Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP) Aug 3, 2008Police in Nepal said Sunday they have detained at least 300 Tibetan protesters outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu. The protesters were quickly bundled into waiting vans as they tried to march towards the main gate of the embassy shouting "China liar, Free Tibet," an AFP reporter at the scene said. "We have rounded up more than 300 Tibetans," Ramesh Thapa, a senior police officer ... more Scientist says feathers are future of Asia construction 
Manila (AFP) Aug 3, 2008A Filipino scientist says he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry in Asia. The new material would be resistant to the region's armies of termites, and could also solve a major environment problem in the Philippines by providing a way to dispose of millions of kilos of waste feathers each year. ... more Oil prices jump on renewed Iran jitters 
New York (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Oil prices jumped higher Friday on renewed jitters over Iran's disputed nuclear program, as Israel's deputy Prime Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said Tehran was playing for time. Oil markets were further unnerved as Washington set the weekend as a deadline for key crude producer Iran to reply to an international offer of incentives for a freeze in its nuclear drive. During a visit to Washington ... more Hu says China to keep seeking high growth 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 1, 2008President Hu Jintao warned Friday that China is facing challenges in a world economy marred by uncertainty, but his government will still seek high growth and has not stopped worrying about inflation. Hu was speaking in a rare group interview with foreign reporters, at a time when the world's fourth-largest economy is facing growing pressure from a weakening global economy. ... more Carbon Capture Milestone For CSIRO In China 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 04, 2008Just weeks out from the Olympics, the CSIRO and its Chinese partners have officially launched a post-combustion capture (PCC) pilot plant in Beijing that strips carbon dioxide from power station flue gases in an effort to stem climate change. The project represents another first for the CSIRO PCC program - the first capture of carbon dioxide in China using a PCC pilot plant. It begins the ... more
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