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USS Sterett Calls Tomahawk Missile Launch A SuccessUSS Sterett, At Sea (SPX) Jul 01, 2010 The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) successfully launched two Tomahawk missiles during a weeklong weapons training exercise in the Pacific Ocean June 21-25. "The missile launch was a success," said Pablo Dasalla, lead platform test coordinator, who was on board to observe the launch. According to Dasalla, the planning required to launch a Tomahawk missile takes three to four months to coordinate. The coordination involves mission planning, approval from different organizations ... read more |
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Palmahim Air Base, Israel (AFP) July 1, 2010The eyes in the sky of modern warfare, whose hallmark hum is heard over Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza, drones are a key weapon and a major cash earner for Israel, the world's largest exporter of pilotless planes. With more than 1,000 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) sold, Israel has raked in several hundred million dollars over the years. Israel's fleet ranges from aircraft which fit in a so ... more  
Moscow (AFP) June 30, 2010A major fire broke out Wednesday in Moscow at a building belonging to Russian missile manufacturer Almaz, the maker of air defence weapons including the S-300 missile system, officials said. The fire at the company's design bureau had spread over an area measuring 800 square metres (8,500 square feet) and dozens of firefighters had been sent to the scene, a spokesman for the Emergency Minist ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 30, 2010General David Petraeus, who saved a failing US mission in Iraq, now will try to rescue the faltering war in Afghanistan, after the US Senate confirmed him as the new commander of the allied war effort there. Senate approval Wednesday came just one week after President Barack Obama named Petraeus, 57, as his choice to fill the post after General Stanley McChrystal was sacked over an explosive ... more |
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Iraq death toll falls sharply in June: ministriesBaghdad (AFP) June 30, 2010 The number of Iraqis killed in violence fell sharply year-on-year in June, figures released on Wednesday showed, with a slight fall in deaths from last month also recorded. Overall, 284 people - 204 civilians, 50 police and 30 soldiers - died in June, the health, defence and interior ministries in Baghdad told AFP. The figure was one third less than the 437 people who died last June, when bombings in the lead-up to the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq's towns and cities resulted in the blood ... read more |
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