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 Mount Pleasant Complex, Falkland Islands (SPX) Oct 19, 2009 
The first Typhoons to be deployed overseas have touched down in the Falkland Islands. The aircraft, from RAF Coningsby, flew into the South Atlantic Islands to take over Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) duties from the Tornado F3s that will return to Britain later this year. Squadron Leader Rich Wells and Flight Lieutenant James Bolton made RAF history by flying the state-of-the-art high tech ... read more 
Warsaw (AFP) Oct 16, 2009The United States will deploy ground-to-air Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010 and is discussing its plans for a new anti-missile system with Warsaw, a US defence official said Friday. "We presented some detailed information on how the rotations of our Patriot batteries would be conducted over the next few years under the August 2008 agreement" with Poland, US Assistant Secretary of Defence ... more
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Nuclear monitor defends Ukraine plant visit via Russia-controlled territory
Iran's former top diplomat Zarif resigns from VP post Italy breaks 'taboo' with push to revive nuclear North Korea held 'strategic cruise missile' launch drill this week: state media Iran slams Israel threats as 'outrageous' after Israeli FM warns of 'military option' A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts Iran significantly increased stocks of highly enriched uranium: IAEA Bangladesh calls for continued Russian nuclear collaboration Iran denounces new US sanctions as 'sign of hostility' Iran rules out 'direct talks' with US on nuclear issue 
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Jakarta (AFP) Oct 18, 2009Indonesia plans to launch a drone plane called "Puna" next year to support national defence and monitor extremist activity, an official said Sunday. "Puna, an unmanned small aircraft, can safely observe hard-to-reach areas. It has been tested and we'll launch it next year," said Surjatin Wiriadidjaja, deputy chairman of the government's Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology ... more 
Paris (UPI) Oct 16, 2009 France has taken delivery of six unmanned air vehicles from Canada. French Defense Ministry spokesman Laurent Teisseire said experts were "verifying the conditions of the six UAV Sperwers bought from Canada to assess their operating conditions," Avionews reported. France is already using four of these aircraft in operations in Afghanistan. Teisseire also acknowledged that ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 18, 2009US Senator John Kerry said, in an interview to be aired Sunday, it was "irresponsible" to send more US troops to Afghanistan at this time, amid a deepening election crisis that has placed the Kabul government's legitimacy at stake. The United States should not proceed with a new Afghanistan strategy committing a potentially major increase in US resources, including tens of thousands more tro ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Oct 18, 2009The bombers who took out some of the top commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday were striking at a pillar of the regime that is increasingly also one of its main businesses. Three decades after the 1979 Islamic revolution, the Guards continue to be the military guardian of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic ideology, but also own large tranches of t ... more 
Kabul (AFP) Oct 16, 2009NATO said Friday a roadside bomb had killed four US soldiers in Afghanistan, as pressure mounted for President Barack Obama to order thousands more soldiers into an escalating eight-year war. "Two US service members were killed and two died of wounds sustained in a single improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan October 15," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Fo ... more 
London (AFP) Oct 19, 2009The British government must not let negative opinion polls about the war in Afghanistan dictate its security policy, the head of the British army warned Monday. The war is winnable, even though the point of victory may seem some way off yet, General David Richards wrote in a letter to The Daily Telegraph newspaper. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has faced growing pressure over the ... more |
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