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Second Generation Aegis BMD Capability Completes Formal TestingMoorestown NJ (SPX) Sep 21, 2010 Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated the second generation of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability in a formal U.S. Navy test event. This configuration, known as Aegis BMD 4.0.1, enables the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy to defeat more complex ballistic missile threats and also introduces the BMD signal processor, which improves target identification. Aegis BMD 4.0.1 marks the beginning of the transition to the Navy's open architecture - a transition that wi ... read more |
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Niamey, Niger (UPI) Sep 20, 2010 The confrontation between France and al-Qaida's North African network may have reached critical mass with last week's kidnapping of seven people, five of them French citizens, in Niger. A contingent of French Special Forces troops was reported to have deployed in Niamey, Niger's capital. Their stated mission is to support Niger's military hunt the kidnappers and their captives but they ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Sept 20, 2010South Korea will consider resuming large-scale food aid to North Korea only if it clearly shows repentance for a deadly attack on a warship, a senior official said Monday. Vice Unification Minister Um Jong-Sik urged Pyongyang to acknowledge its wrongdoing, apologise and punish those involved in the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. "I believe inter-Korean relations can improve ... more 
Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2010 A new multimillion-dollar government contract for a Maryland biological security research company indicates the threat of an anthrax outbreak as a result of bioterrorism remains a major priority for the Obama administration. Emergent BioSolutions Inc., which has headquarters in Rockville, Md., said it signed a contract valued at up to $186.6 million with the Biomedical Advanced Research ... more |
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Compromise the key to solving settlement freeze row: IsraelJerusalem (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 The only way Israel and the Palestinians can resolve a bitter dispute over the imminent end of a freeze on Jewish settlement construction is compromise, Israel's deputy premier said on Monday. Dan Meridor, who is also Israel's minister for intelligence and nuclear affairs, told reporters he hoped the two sides could work out a compromise which would allow them to continue talking, despite the looming expiry of a freeze on new West Bank building. Israel and the Palestinians began long-awaited dir ... read more |
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