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No further delay for U.S. Air Force tankerWashington (UPI) Aug 5, 2010 The U.S. Air Force won't further delay the award date for its $40 billion air tanker contract, a U.S. official said. Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, said he would be "very, very surprised" if the contract award date would be postponed beyond the current mid-November deadline, Defensenews.com reports. "We're going to come in when we say we are," Schwartz said. For the past nine years, Boeing and European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., the parent of European ... read more |
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New Orleans LA (SPX) Aug 05, 2010Textron Marine and Land Systems has announced a firm-fixed-price contract award from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) for additional M1117 Armored Security Vehicles (ASV) and M1200 Armored Knights. The award, valued at $49,808,772, exercises options for 52 M1117 ASVs, 21 M1200 Armored Knights, and 12 special tool sets with Textron Marine and Land Systems. Work is ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 05, 2010A technical design for a new-generation aircraft carrier will be ready by the end of the year, the head of the Russian Navy has said. In an interview with RIA Novosti, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said several organizations were working on the warship's design, including the Severnoye and the Nevskoye design bureaus. He said it was too early to say what the new aircraft carrier will look l ... more  
Kiev, Ukraine (XNA) Aug 05, 2010Ukraine's state owned company "Yuzhmash" based in eastern city Dnipropetrovsk postponed the delivery of the basic part of the Taurus-II launch vehicle's first stage to a U.S. company, the Ukranian company said in a statement on Tuesday. "For some technical reasons, the delivery date has been put off to September-October," the statement said. The delivery was reportedly scheduled for ... more |
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TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: Tracking The Catastrophic Oil SpillBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 04, 2010 If an oil spill wasn't responsible for the formations in these TerraSAR-X images, they might seem like the work of an artist. The images were acquired over the Gulf of Mexico on 9 July 2010. For researchers, such imagery is key in forecasting the distribution of the oil slick. TerraSAR-X mapped the oil-polluted area in the Gulf of Mexico in a series of images acquired on 9 July 2010. The environmental catastrophe started on 20 April 2010 when an explosion sank the ... read more |
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