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UK Defence Equipment Budget Rises As Future Force Takes ShapeLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2011 The Government has committed to increasing the planned MOD equipment budget by over GBP3bn during the Spending Review period after 2015 to fund vital future military equipment. The longer-term vision for the make up of our military - Future Force 2020 - will be secured by this one-per-cent-a-year real terms increase in the planned equipment and equipment support programme. The culmination of this work has meant the Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox was able to announce that this funding will all ... read more |
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  U.S., Iran spar over downed drone claim A senior Iranian legislator is claiming that his country downed a U.S. spy drone overflying the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Iran's Qom province in central Iran. ... more | .. |
  'Anonymous' fires back at hacker hunters Notorious hacker group Anonymous on posted a defiant message to police Thursday and boasted of plundering sensitive data from NATO computers. ... more | .. |
  US lawmakers in new bid for Taiwan jets A congressional panel on Thursday urged the United States to sell F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, the latest appeal for the weaponry the island says it needs to counter a rising China. ... more | .. |
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  Australian army soon to get Nary vehicles The Australian army will take delivery of 31 new Nary patrol vehicles this month after a delay of more than three years. ... more | .. |
 France tips Dassault to supply new drones France is in talks with French group Dassault Aviation to buy medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drones to enter service in 2014, Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Canadian ex-Afghan commander pleads guilty to affair Canada's former top officer in Afghanistan, Brigadier-General Daniel Menard, pleaded guilty Thursday to having an affair with a female corporal under his command on active duty. ... more | .. |
 Metal Storm and TASER Sign MoU Metal Storm Limited is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TASER International Inc. and BREON Defence Systems Pty Limited to develop and market TASE ... more |
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ATLAS bolsters radio frequency network through new HawkEye 360 alliance
Mobix Labs Secures Defense Funding to Advance SATCOM SoC Innovation
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  UN bid will not affect peace process: Abbas Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Wednesday his efforts to seek UN membership for the Palestinians would not affect negotiations "that we want to continue to have" with Israel. ... more | .. |
 Petraeus warns of deteriorating US-Pakistan relations US General David Petraeus admitted Wednesday there was no option but to work on troubled relations with Pakistan, days after standing down from his job at the helm of coalition forces in Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
  GA-ASI Awarded Contract for Hellads Weapon System Demonstrator General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Las ... more | .. |
  US Army Develops New Ways to Test, Identify Biological Agents The Army is advancing science in new ways. Scientists as the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center developed a ground-breaking method for identification of biological agents. "We are e ... more |
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  Iran Guards kill Kurdish rebels Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards continued their offensives against rebels from the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) on Wednesday, killing and wounding a number of them, media reported. ... more | .. |
 Little progress in Taliban talks as handover begins With violence in Afghanistan flaring to record levels as Western troops begin to withdraw and key cities are handed over to local forces, experts say peace talks with the Taliban are becoming ever more urgent. ... more | .. |
 Pentagon looks to social media as new battlefield The Pentagon is asking scientists to figure out how to detect and counter propaganda on social media networks in the aftermath of Arab uprisings driven by Twitter and Facebook. ... more | .. |
 Heavy metal hardens battle The French may have had a better chance at the Battle of Agincourt had they not been weighed down by heavy body armour, say researchers. A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows ... more |
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Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island Santorini
Pain, anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster
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 Boeing P-8A Poseidon Production Aircraft Completes First Flight The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon production aircraft completed its first flight on July 7, taking off from Renton Field and landing three hours later at Boeing Field in Seattle. The P-8A is the first ... more | .. |
  STSS Demonstrator Satellites Track Short-Range, Air-Launched Rocket The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites successfully acquired and tracked a short-range, air-launched target (SRALT) July 8 in a test that showed their ability to ... more | .. |
 Improved Aircraft Survivability and Digital Interoperability Technology developed as part of Northrop Grumman's Rotorcraft Avionics Innovation Laboratory (RAIL) took flight for the first time aboard the U.S. Navy's T-Rex UH-1N test bed aircraft to demonstrate ... more | .. |
 First US Navy Demonstration of Joint Tactical Radio Network Lockheed Martin performed its first successful Joint Tactical Radio network demonstration for the U.S. Navy, transmitting Internet-Protocol enabled data and video communications Using a Joint Tactic ... more |
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  Outside View: An uncommon defense Intense debate over what the United States can or will do regarding its massive debt and deficits along with its drawdowns from Afghanistan and Iraq, possibly tempered by the Libyan fiasco, will put defense spending under political and public microscopes. ... more | .. |
 Brazil starts building Scorpene-class subs Brazil has started building four conventional submarines in preparation for developing technological capability to build a nuclear one with French help. ... more | .. |
 Libya rebels ask France for more help Military leaders from the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday for extra aid to defeat ruler Moamer Kadhafi, a member of their delegation said. ... more | .. |
 US training plans gain traction in Iraq: Zebari Plans to keep a small number of American army trainers in Iraq after a year-end deadline for US forces to pull out are gaining traction among political leaders, Baghdad's foreign minister said on Wednesday. ... more |
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MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
Scientists' conference kicks off global AI summit in Paris
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 Cyprus peace could be casualty of blast fallout When sirens sounded at dawn on Wednesday they not only reminded Greek Cypriots of the Turkish invasion but also served as a wake-up call that Cyprus is on the brink of political and economic meltdown. ... more | .. |
 Remote Polish lake makes big waves in global shipping At first, the sight of grown men fiercely concentrating on the slightest movements of tiny, model ships looks a little silly. ... more | .. |
 Iran Guards kill Kurdish rebels Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards continued their offensives against rebels from the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) on Wednesday, killing and wounding a number of them, media reported. ... more | .. |
 Eyeing China, Clinton urges India to take leader role US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged India on Wednesday to be more assertive in Asia, reflecting US desire for New Delhi to emerge as a counter-weight to Chinese power. ... more |
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 GD Canada and DRDC Atlantic Complete Torpedo-Defence Demo General Dynamics Canada has completed its largest and most successful Technology Demonstration Program (TDP) with Defence Research and Development Canada Atlantic (DRDC Atlantic), demonstrating a to ... more | .. |
 US DoD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace The Department of Defense has released the DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC). It is the first DoD unified strategy for cyberspace and officially encapsulates a new way forward for DoD' ... more | .. |
 Soldiers Keep Iraq's Highways, Byways Safe As the sun sets on the desert horizon, the highways of southern Iraq empty of civilian traffic. Although the local population begins to go home for the night, a new type of traffic emerges on Iraq's ... more | .. |
 NATO envoy: Russia won't arm Gadhafi Russia's envoy to NATO has again blasted France's move to arm Libyan rebels but says his country has no plans to supply weapons to Libya leader Moammar Gadhafi. ... more |
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