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US not helping Taiwan cruise missile programWashington (AFP) Dec 10, 2010 The United States has not provided any help to Taiwan in its bid to mass produce cruise missiles, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday, as a Chinese military delegation held talks here. Taiwan's Deputy Defense Minister Chao Shih-chang confirmed to parliament for the first time Wednesday that the island was mass-producing cruise missiles. "Mass production of indigenous weapons like the ones under the code names of 'Chichun' (Lance Hawk) and 'Chuifeng' (Chasing Wind) is very smooth," Chao said. As ... read more |
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  Barak: Iran nuclear showdown still in diplomacy stage The showdown over Iran's nuclear pursuit is "still in the stage of diplomacy," and extended sanctions against the regime could help prevent it from acquiring atomic weapons, Israel's defense minister said in comments broadcast Sunday. ... more | .. |
  US Navy Awards Contract To Prepare Unmanned K-MAX Helicopter For Deployment The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Kaman Aerospace a $45.8 million contract for K-MAX unmanned aircraft systems for a U.S. Marine Corps evaluation of unmanned ... more | .. |
  US Army Awards GD Contract For Stryker Combat-Vehicle Work General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded three contracts by the U.S. Army to support performance specification changes to and fielding of the Stryker vehicle. The contracts are worth a combine ... more | .. |
 Hermes UAV Reaches 30,000-Hour Milestone In Afghanistan The British Army's Hermes 450 (H450) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have achieved the outstanding milestone of providing over 30,000 hours of support to UK forces on current operations in Afghanistan. ... more |
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  Commentary: War of the worlds The WikiLeaks pandemic spread like wildfire around Planet Earth triggering a new age of uncertainty, anxiety - and fear. Nothing was sacred or secret. The loose-lips-sink-ships mentality is spreading to the ether, or at least the Internet whose true dimensions are hard to grasp. ... more | .. |
  Jury still out on 2010 US strategy in Af-Pak The US strategy to defeat Al-Qaeda and the Taliban tripled American troops fighting in Afghanistan and doubled missile strikes in Pakistan, but hangs in the balance after a year of record violence. ... more | .. |
  Six police among 14 killed in Iraq suicide attacks Suicide attacks targeting a police checkpoint and a Shiite Muslim procession in western and central Iraq killed up to 14 people on Sunday, including six policemen and a journalist. ... more | .. |
 Israel stops whistle-blower getting German prize: organisers Israel has barred Mordechai Vanunu, who spent 18 years in jail for revealing secrets of the country's nuclear programme, from going to Germany to accept a prize, organisers said Friday. ... more |
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  Japan to deploy new missile interceptors: report Japan plans to deploy advanced interceptor missiles at its air bases across the nation to counter the threat of North Korea's ballistic missiles, Kyodo News reported on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 North Korea stresses commitment to nuclear weapons North Korea vowed Friday to push ahead with its "army first" policy and rely on nuclear weapons to defend itself from the joint forces of South Korea and the United States. ... more | .. |
 China: U.S. legislators are 'arrogant' U.S. legislators should "change their rude and arrogant attitude" toward China over the Nobel Peace Prize issue, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said. ... more | .. |
  USS Essex Conducts Landing Craft Operations With JMSDF Ships The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) embarked landing craft, air cushion (LCAC) vehicles with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) Dec. 6, as part of exercise Keen ... more |
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 NGC Awarded Contract Modification For CVN 79 Northrop Grumman received a $323.6 million, cost plus incentive fee contract extension for continuation of work on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN 79. The company's Shipbuilding secto ... more | .. |
 Otokar Receives Contract For 6x6 ARMA Turkish leading land systems manufacturer, Otokar received the first contract for its new 6x6 tactical armoured vehicle ARMA from abroad. The contract is valued in excess of $10.6 million including ... more | .. |
  EADS Conducts First Flight Of Armed Aerial Scout 72X TDA EADS North America has announced that it has flown the second of three company-funded Armed Aerial Scout 72X Technical Demonstration Aircraft (TDA). The flight took place yesterday at the comp ... more | .. |
 Leaked US memos highlight Myanmar nuclear fears Washington has suspected for years that Myanmar has a secret nuclear programme supported by North Korea, with witnesses reporting suspicious activity as far back as 2004, leaked memos show. ... more |
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 Combined Strategies And Technologies Help IED Fight As the number of improvised explosive device attacks rises in Afghanistan, a combination of strategies and technologies are being used to halt the harm they cause to troops and civilians, Army Lt. G ... more | .. |
  Netanyahu disavows Barak's plan on sharing Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday disavowed remarks by Defence Minister Ehud Barak supporting the division of Jerusalem in a future peace deal with the Palestinians, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Investing in Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. investors and other foreign companies continue to shy away from investing in Afghanistan and Iraq because of security and infrastructure problems as well as government corruption, a critical shortcoming in the two countries' efforts to grow their economies and increase stability. ... more | .. |
 Four militants dead in US drone attack: Pakistan officials Four militants were killed when a US drone fired two missiles in northwest Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on Friday, security officials said. ... more |
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 North Korea sends minister to Russia amid tensions North Korea's foreign minister left for Russia Saturday amid a flurry of diplomatic attempts to ease tensions following the North's deadly attack on a South Korean island last month. ... more | .. |
 Obama: Senate must vote START before holidays President Barack Obama pressed the US Senate in an interview broadcast Friday to approve a landmark nuclear arms control pact with Russia before wrapping up for the year-end holidays. ... more | .. |
Insurgents kidnap sister-in-law of senior Kurd cop Insurgents kidnapped the sister-in-law of a top Kurdish policeman in an apparent bid to release jailed detainees in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
Hundreds of Iraq Christians mark church siege carnage Hundreds of Iraqi Christians attended mass on Friday at a Baghdad church where 46 worshippers died in an Al-Qaeda siege, marking 40 days since the killings that sparked an international outcry. ... more |
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