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US tanker bid war heats up with Airbus, Russia in wingsWashington (AFP) March 19, 2010 The US Air Force tanker bidding contest against Boeing heated up Friday, with Airbus parent EADS mulling a proposal and Russia's state firm UAC gearing up for one next week. EADS opened the door to a bid against US arch-rival Boeing for the 35-billion-dollar aerial refueling tanker contract on signs of Pentagon willingness to extend the May deadline. The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company's expressed interest in the competition, and the surprise emergence of a Russian competitor late ... read more |
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London (UPI) Mar 20, 2009 A new type of armor would use pulses of electrical energy to repel projectiles away from an armored vehicle, British scientists say. Researchers at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, better know as "Dstl" and located at four sites in England, say it is possible to corporate material known as supercapacitors into armor that would turn a vehicle into a kind of giant battery, T ... more 
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Metal Storm has received video footage from the US Navy of Metal Storm weapon systems taking part in an unmanned systems-based live-fire demonstration. This footage is now being made available on the Metal Storm website. China Lake, located on the edge of California's Mojave Desert, was chosen to provide a realistic environment for the demonstrations. With temperatures reaching 110 degrees ... more 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has handed over the first series-production vehicle of the Joint Fire Support Team (JFST) FENNEK to the German Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB) and the Armed Forces at the artillery school in Idar-Oberstein. The vehicles feature special equipment for Joint Fire Support (JFS) tasks and will see deployment to Afghanistan as early as in April 20 ... more |
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Cash-strapped Chinese living in shipping containersBeijing (AFP) March 19, 2010 Rocketing house prices in China's booming south are forcing low-earners to turn to cheap homes made out of shipping containers, state press said Friday. Clusters of container villages are cropping up around the boomtown of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, where real estate prices can rise as high as 20,000 yuan (2,900 dollars) per square metre, the People's Daily said on its website. But an 18 square metre (193 square feet) container can be rented for an entire year for just over 2,000 yuan, the report ... read more |
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