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Taliban don't have stinger missiles: GatesWashington (AFP) Aug 1, 2010 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday dismissed reports that Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan use anti-aircraft stinger missiles similar to those directed against Soviet forces in the 1980s. "I don't think so," Gates told CNN's "State of the Union" program in response to a question on the matter. Documents released by whistleblowers' website WikiLeaks one week ago suggested Taliban insurgents had the shoulder-fired, heat-seeking, surface-to-air missiles. The use of stingers against US ... read more |
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Seoul (UPI) Jul 30, 2010 After a weeklong war of words, North Korea and the U.N. Command met in Panmunjom, a hamlet on the frontier separating the two Koreas. Colonels from both sides sat down to discuss how they could restart stalled negotiations to secure peace on the peninsular between the nations that are technically still at war since the 1953 cease-fire. Issues discussed included the highly content ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2010The nationwide programme to build the Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers passed another milestone when construction on the first ship, the Queen Elizabeth, began in Birkenhead yesterday, Monday 26 July 2010. Birkenhead company Cammell Laird is the final shipyard in the programme to begin construction and will build two of the sections that will make up the ship's gian ... more  
Adelphi MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2010Development of snake-like technology underway at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is moving the military toward sending more autonomous systems instead of Soldiers on search-and-rescue missions, a top priority in the most dangerous mission areas. Army researchers call it the Robotic Tentacle Manipulator, a developmental project that expands on snake robotics research introduced at Carnegi ... more |
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Investigation Of Military Munitions Sea Disposal SiteHonolulu HI (SPX) Jul 30, 2010 The University of Hawaii at Manoa's School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) completed a three-year long investigation of Sea Disposal Site Hawaii Number 5 (HI-05), a deep-water military munitions disposal site in U.S. coastal waters approximately 5 miles south of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. This complex investigation required the use of high-resolution sidescan sonar and remotely operated underwater vehicles to locate sea disposed munitions in water as deep as 1,500 feet. The SO ... read more |
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