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 Jerusalem (AFP) April 21, 2009 
Israel wants to buy a rocket intercept system from the United States to protect against militant fire from the Gaza Strip, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview published on Tuesday. "The Vulcan-Phalanx canons and radar will be part of a multi-layer defence to intercept rockets," Barak told the Haaretz newspaper. "Such defence, as far as I am concerned, is a strategic goal," h ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2009China's navy will mark its 60th anniversary with a ceremony starting Thursday dubbed the "naval Olympics" that will display the country's nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, state media said. The four-day event involves 21 vessels from 14 countries in the eastern city of Qingdao and includes a fleet review to be held Thursday -- the fourth one in China since 1949, the official ... more
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Lights out for French solar panel maker
Kremlin urges Trump to resume nuclear disarmament talks 'as soon as possible' UK agrees �9 bn nuclear submarine deal with Rolls-Royce Trump hopes to avoid strikes on Iran nuclear sites Iran says Oct 7 attack 'destroyed' chance for US nuclear talks UN nuclear chief urges dialogue between Trump, Iran New Zealand mayor goes nuclear after Trump claims US 'split the atom' Iran says hopes Trump will take 'realistic' approach to region Mongolia signs landmark mining deal with French nuclear giant IEA forecasts record nuclear electricity production in 2025 
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Moscow (AFP) April 21, 2009Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit the two Koreas this week, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday after the North's decision to quit six-party talks and expel UN nuclear inspectors. Lavrov will visit North Korea April 23-24 and South Korea April 24-25 to "discuss bilateral relations with the two Korean states, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in northeast Asia and oth ... more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 20, 2009Raytheon has delivered the Pathfinder ground test missile avionics module and associated support equipment to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The delivery is a key milestone in the 2009 KEI booster flight test preparation because it brings together all the major Pathfinder hardware, software and support equipment needed to verify test range preparation, integration and test processes. ... more  
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2009The Lockheed Martin Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has submitted its proposal for the program's follow-on production phase and has completed a major Preliminary Design Review (PDR) milestone with the U.S. Air Force. The SBIRS program is designed to provide early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously support other missions including missile defense, technical intelligenc ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2009The U.S. government can get the most from valuable missile defense dollars by focusing on early intercept of hostile ballistic missiles through mobile and flexible defenses, according to Northrop Grumman. "A mobile, early intercept system stands to make the existing layer of defense much stronger while also being more affordable for taxpayers in the long run," said Larry Dodgen, who is res ... more |
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Robots should be repurposed to combat e-waste crisisLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2025 Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of West England have urged the robotics industry to focus on developing robots that can be reprogrammed and repurposed for alternative t ... more
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Washington, April 20, 2009 The 300th column in this series offers a useful point from which to look back. Events since the first installment of "Waging War" have, I think, generally validated the four-generation framework of modern war. Iraq was not a cakewalk, nor did the initial U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late November 2001 in retaliation for the al-Qaida terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, eviscerate ... more 
Bishkek (AFP) April 20, 2009Moscow will increase the number of warplanes it has stationed in Kyrgyzstan, a Russian general said Monday, following the expulsion of a key US military base from the former Soviet republic. "The Russian leadership plans to increase the number of individual warplanes at (the Russian airbase) at Kant," Nikolai Bordyuzha, head of the Russia-led CSTO security organization, told the Kyrgyz parl ... more 
Arlington, Va., April 20, 2009 The United States needs a new strategy for missile defenses, one that reflects the changing international environment and military requirements. The original construct of U.S. defense planners for the development and deployment of missile defenses was based on the strategic relationship that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In that period ... more 
Moscow (AFP) April 20, 2009Russia will pull out of a meeting with senior NATO military officials to protest what its envoy described Monday as "provocative" war games planned by the alliance in Georgia. "If there will be no reaction (to a Russian complaint about the exercises) we will take certain measures," the envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, said in an interview with Vesti-24 television, quoted by the Interfax news agency. ... more |
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