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Satellite's Data Collection Will Support Warfighter
Kirtland AFB NM (AFPN) Aug 22, 2008Tactical Satellite-3's scheduled October mission is set to demonstrate rapid data collection and transmission to the combatant commander in the theater of interest. During Tactical Satellite-3's upcoming flight, a new capability of employing a hyperspectral imager with a space-based, onboard processor to obtain and send images within minutes to the warfighter on the ground will be tested. ... more UK Troops To Benefit From Munitions Partnering Deal 
London, UK (SPX) Aug 25, 2008A new partnering arrangement between the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and BAE Systems initially worth GBP2 billion -- with anticipated growth to more than GBP3 billion during the next 15 years -- will guarantee secure supplies of ammunition to UK troops while providing value for money for the taxpayer. The arrangement, known as Munitions Acquisition - the Supply Solution (MASS), is initial ... more Stellar Team's SATURN Wins At The MoD Grand Challenge 
Copehill Down, UK (SPX) Aug 25, 2008SELEX Galileo, of Finmeccanica, has achieved success at the MoD Grand Challenge finale as part of the winning Stellar Team. Stellar team's winning SATURN (Sensing and Autonomous Tactical Urban Reconnaissance Network) solution was awarded the highest points of any participants by judging panel after successfully identifying the majority of the threats planted at the MoD's Urban warfare ... more Overseas operations increasingly hard: French military official 
Paris (AFP) Aug 22, 2008Overseas military operations will be more and more difficult but its risks must be dealt with, a top French military official said in an interview to be published Saturday. "The time of easy overseas operations is over," General Jean-Louis Georgelin, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told Le Figaro newspaper, after 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in an attack by ... more Questioning Unbeatable Insurgencies 
Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 Insurgencies since World War II have worn down their enemies and then prevailed -- with one major exception: Malaya (communist insurgency 1948-1960) before it became Malaysia. Iraq, where the final results will not be known until after U.S. troops leave everything to Iraqi security forces, may become the second. In 1946 the French in Indochina were up against a communist insurgency in ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 The Georgian-Ossetian war, which began overnight Aug. 8, is being conducted not only with tanks, cannons and aircraft, and not only with diplomacy and information attacks, but in cyberspace as well. Reflecting today's technology, the war instantly spread into cyberspace. Since the war's first day, the leading information and state agency Web sites in Russia and Georgia became the target ... more Boeing considers exiting US Air Force tanker rebidding 
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2008US aerospace giant Boeing said Friday it may exit the rebidding for a 35-billion-dollar contract to build US Air Force aerial refueling tankers unless allowed more time to rework its proposal. The Department of Defense (DoD) was forced in June to rebid the contract after congressional auditors found flaws in the air force's decision to award it to Northrop Grumman and the European ... more More than 90 killed in coalition strikes: investigation 
Herat, Afghanistan (AFP) Aug 24, 2008An investigation has found that more than 90 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in coalition air strikes days ago, an Afghan government minister told AFP Sunday. President Hamid Karzai ordered the investigation into Friday's operation in the western province of Herat after Afghan officials said high numbers of civilians were killed but the US-led coalition said only 30 ... more Iraq PM demanding changes to US military deal: ally 
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 24, 2008Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is demanding changes to a draft deal on the status of US forces beyond this year, a key Shiite ally in the governing coalition said on Sunday. "There are points in the agreement that are still pending and they can't be approved without changes in order to preserve the complete sovereignty of Iraq," the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) quoted Maliki as ... more Iraq-US pact puts troop pullout by 2011: negotiator 
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 22, 2008Negotiators have finalised a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011, ending an eight-year occupation, the top official in the Iraqi team told AFP on Friday. Under the 27-point deal all American combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by next June, said negotiator Mohammed al-Haj Hammoud. The agreement has already been approved by US President ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Aug 24, 2008North Korea vowed Sunday it would bolster its "war deterrent" as it denounced last week's annual US-South Korean joint military exercise. The communist North, which tested an atomic weapon in October 2006, was reacting to the August 18-22 exercise involving computer simulations and tens of thousands of US and South Korean troops. "The DPRK (North Korea) will bolster the war deterrent for ... more Two years on, face transplant patients can smile: study 
Paris (AFP) Aug 22, 2008Two facial transplants -- one on a Chinese man who had half his face ripped off by a bear -- have proved highly successful two years on, opening the way for wider use of the procedure, studies released Friday report. The operations in China and France are among a handful that have pioneered the use of donor tissue to repair severe disfigurement of the face caused by burns, tumours ... more Japanese scientists seek quake secrets in Parthenon design 
Athens (AFP) Aug 22, 2008Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has withstood scores of quakes, a senior Greek archaeologist said on Friday. "The Parthenon had great resilience to earthquakes, as did most classical Greek temples," Maria Ioannidou, the archeologist in charge of conservation on the ancient Acropolis citadel where ... more Academy Awarded Funding For Wave Energy Research 
US Air Force Academy CO (AFPN) Aug 22, 2008The next source of alternative energy could come from ocean waves, and Air Force Academy professors have been granted funding to dive into this research. The National Science Foundation has awarded the Academy's Aeronautics Department $285,619 to support a cyclodial propeller wave energy converter research project to harness the ocean's power. The concept of ocean waves turning power ... more Analysis: Iraq Energy Roundup 
Baghdad, Iraq (UPI) Aug 25, 2008Iraq said it planned to sign a $1.2 billion deal with China's state-run oil firm, marking the first major oil deal since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Baghdad officials said the deal with China National Petroleum Corp. could come as early as next week, Abu Dhabi's The National reported. The deal replaced a contract with the Chinese ... more
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