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US Army Preparing For Mountainous, Battalion-Sized TestWhite Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Apr 22, 2010 The U.S. Army is planning a rigorous, large-scale Limited User Test, or LUT, of its Increment 1 Early Brigade Combat Team technologies at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., later this year. The evaluation will test robots, sensors, UAVs and a battlefield network in Afghan-like mountainous terrain. Spanning a 35-kilometer area, the 2010 LUT will be more than five times larger than the 2009 LUT which tested the same technologies on the company level scale in the five-kilometer area known as Adobe Vill ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2010The mine-resistant ambush- protected all-terrain vehicle, or M-ATV, is on its way to Afghanistan to replace many of the up-armored Humvees. "It will not be too long before we will be able to get everybody who can be out of the up-armored Humvee into the MRAP ATV," said Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. General Peter W. Chiarelli. Chiarelli spoke April 14 before the Senate Armed Se ... more 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 22, 2010Boeing [NYSE: BA] is supporting the U.S. Navy's biofuel-powered flight, scheduled to take place on Earth Day, April 22. An unmodified, Boeing-built F/A-18F Super Hornet will take off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., powered by a sustainable biofuel blend of 50 percent camelina and 50 percent JP-5 aviation fuel. Operating Navy platforms with renewable energy sources such as susta ... more  
Washington (UPI) Apr 21, 2010 Iran possessing nuclear weapons is "unacceptable," a warning repeated by many heads of state and senior government officials. The same was said of North Korea although it may have little more than a nuclear device and thus far lacks a means of delivery. So what to do about Iran? The call is for tough sanctions. But sanctions really don't work and will punish Iranians more than th ... more |
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Airlines press for compensation as Europe's skies reopenLondon (AFP) April 22, 2010 As Europe's airspace reopened and weary passengers boarded long-delayed flights home, airline executives pressed for government compensation to cover the industry's massive losses. Eurocontrol, Europe's air safety authority, said they expected air traffic to be "almost 100 percent" on Thursday, estimating that 75 percent of the 28,000 flights normally scheduled Wednesday had flown. All Europe's main air hubs were up and running Wednesday and experts in Iceland said the Eyjafjjoell volcano had lo ... read more |
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