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Russian MPs cool on missile treaty after US vote: officialMoscow (AFP) Nov 3, 2010 A Russian parliamentary committee has withdrawn its recommendation to ratify a new nuclear disarmament treaty with the United States after the results of the mid-term polls, an official said Wednesday. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in April but the accord has still to be ratified by the Russian lower house, the State Duma, or the US Senate. The passage of the treaty - which envisages major nuclear weapons cuts - ... read more |
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 Japan Achieves Third Ballistic Missile Intercept The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) achieved its third ballistic missile intercept using a Raytheon Standard Missile-3. During Thursday's test, which marked the 18th SM-3 intercept, the ... more | .. |
  SAIC Launches Advanced Intelligence Multimedia Exploitation Suite Science Applications International has announced it has launched the Advanced Intelligence Multimedia Exploitation Suite (AIMES). The new motion imagery exploitation system enables intelligence anal ... more | .. |
  BAE Reaches Milestone With Modernized Howitzer Vehicles BAE Systems has delivered seven Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) prototype vehicles to the U.S. Army on schedule. PIM is the latest howitzer in the M109 Paladin family of vehicles. BAE Syst ... more | .. |
  LM TRACER Begins Test Flights Aboard Predator B MQ-9 UAS A milestone has been achieved, the first flight of Lockheed Martin's Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar (TRACER) aboard an MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. The milestone ... more |
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  ManTech Awarded US Army Contract To Provide ECCS In Afghanistan ManTech International has announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to provide Expeditionary Cellular Communications Service (ECCS) in Afghanistan. The contract is value ... more | .. |
 Hughes Undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM Certification Hughes Network Systems has announced its HX System for land mobile, maritime and airborne communications-on-the-move (COTM) is undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) certification by the U.S. Strat ... more | .. |
 US Army Plans Large Manned-Unmanned Demo The U.S. Army is planning a largest-of-its-kind demonstration - called Manned Unmanned Systems Integration Concept, or MUSIC - at Dougway Proving Ground, Utah, in September of next year, service off ... more | .. |
 IAI Awarded Contract For ELM-2105 Radar Based Border Protection Systems Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded a contract worth $9 million (USD) to provide a foreign customer with its ELM-2105 radar-based border protection system. The radar, which is p ... more |
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 ORBIT To Supply Tri-Band Telemetry Tracking Systems To Patuxent River USNAWC ORBIT Communication Systems has announced the award of a contract for the supply of two Tri-Band (L/S/C) Telemetry Tracking Systems. The order was placed by the Telemetry Branch, Atlantic Test Range ... more | .. |
  Military Radar Systems Stay On Priority Lists The latest market research on military radar systems shows that the market is a growing and important sector in the defence industry. Even as countries move to reduce defence spending in the face of ... more | .. |
 Three US drone strikes kill 11 militants in Pakistan At least 11 militants were killed in three US drone missile strikes targeting Islamist fighters in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday, security officials said. ... more | .. |
 Brazil to decide fighter jet tender soon: Lula Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he would decide a multi-billion-dollar fighter jet tender soon with his successor elected last weekend, Dilma Rousseff. ... more |
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  Iran says nuclear swap must be based on Brazil-Turkey deal Iran said on Wednesday that any nuclear fuel swap with the major powers must be based on an agreement it signed with Brazil and Turkey, dismissing reports a revised proposal was on the table. ... more | .. |
  Europe holds its first cyber defence test European computer guards joined forces Thursday to counter a simulated attack by hackers on critical Internet services, in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. ... more | .. |
  Five civilians killed in Afghan firefight: NATO Five civilians, two of them children, were killed Wednesday in a firefight between between insurgents and foreign soldiers in southern Afghanistan, NATO said. ... more | .. |
 Ahmadinejad slams Russia for 'selling out to Satan' President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at Russia on Wednesday, saying it had "sold out" Iran to arch-foe the United States by cancelling a deal to supply S-300 ground-to-air missiles. ... more |
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  Stranded British submarine damaged in tug collision: navy Britain's newest nuclear submarine, which became stranded on a sandbank off the coast of Scotland last month, has now been damaged in a collision with a tug that came to rescue it, the Navy said. ... more | .. |
 Saudis infiltrate al-Qaida in Yemen The Saudi intelligence service's tip-off to the British about the al-Qaida parcel bombs found on cargo jets last week is the result of a long, clandestine penetration of the jihadist network in Yemen. ... more | .. |
 Franco-British defence deal 'clearly essential': press British papers poured cold water Wednesday on the idea a Franco-British defence deal was a sign of blossoming friendship, saying the weakened former foes would struggle to maintain their militaries alone. ... more | .. |
 Clinton hopes 'lame-duck' Congress will pass nuclear treaty US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she hoped the "lame-duck" session of Congress would pass a new nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia, but she could not guarantee it. ... more |
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 NATO soldier dies in Afghanistan, official killed A NATO soldier was killed by insurgents Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said, as an Afghan government official was gunned down in the southern city of Kandahar. ... more | .. |
  Israel PM to meet Egyptian intelligence chief in Tel Aviv Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu was on Thursday to meet Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman in Tel Aviv for talks expected to focus on the deadlocked peace talks, a government source said. ... more | .. |
Clinton to meet Netanyahu in bid to keep peace talks alive US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she plans to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the United States next week in a bid to keep the Middle East peace talks alive. ... more | .. |
Costa Rica asks OAS to intervene in border dispute Costa Rica on Wednesday asked the Organization of American States to investigate its allegation that troops from neighboring Nicaragua had unlawfully entered its territory. ... more |
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