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![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 29, 2011 Lockheed Martin has selected its Courtland, Ala., facility for future production of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB). The production facility decision will be part of the bid that Lockheed Martin intends to submit for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's upcoming product development phase for the SM-3 IIB that is scheduled to be awarded in 2013. "Our Courtland facility is a proven provider of assembly, integration and test of ballistic missile targets and missile defense systems," said Joh ... read more |
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![]() Russia successfully test launches troubled missile: Kremlin Russia on Saturday successfully test fired its new nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental missile which it hopes will become a key strategic weapon despite a string of setbacks, the Kremlin said. ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin Introduces Virtual Capability That Connects Interpreters with Battlefield Troops Deployed U.S. and international forces battling language barriers will now be able to instantly connect to a pool of highly qualified interpretation services through a real-time, virtual capability ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin Delivers Third Production C-5M Super Galaxy To USAF Lockheed Martin has completed delivery of the third production C-5M Super Galaxy to the U.S. Air Force. The sixth C-5M overall to be delivered to the Air Force, this aircraft will undergo internal p ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Raytheon-Boeing Team Continues to Validate JAGM Single Rocket-Motor Solution Raytheon and Boeing have completed a second series of government-funded technology development phase tests of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile's single rocket-motor solution, designed by Boeing and i ... more | .. |
![]() Baghdad mosque attack kills MP, 27 others An elderly bandage-swathed suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack that was blamed on Al-Qaeda on Monday. ... more | .. |
![]() NATO warplane flies over Tripoli, blasts heard A half dozen explosions were heard in the distance early Monday in Tripoli just after a NATO warplane flew over the Libyan capital. ... more | .. |
![]() Pakistan's 10 years of chaos The 9/11 attacks that thrust Pakistan into the war on terror have brought the nuclear-armed state to its knees, fighting Islamist radicals at home and risking pariah status abroad. ... more |
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![]() 9/11 leaves a legacy of psychiatric trauma, stress The September 11 terror strikes left American psychiatrists a lasting legacy of unexpected size: thousands of people living and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, 10 years on. ... more | .. |
![]() Raytheon Ground System Passes Launch Test for Critical Polar Orbiting Satellite The Raytheon developed Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System has achieved a major milestone on the road to NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) launch with the successful completion o ... more | .. |
![]() Baghdad mosque attack kills MP, 27 others An elderly bandage-swathed suicide bomber blew himself up in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack that was blamed on Al-Qaeda on Monday. ... more | .. |
![]() Israel 'will consider' any request for more Sinai troops Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that if Egypt asked to increase its troops in the Sinai peninsula, the request would be brought before the security cabinet, public radio said. ... more |
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![]() Senior Iraqi Kurd calls on rebels to lay down arms The deputy chief of the most powerful political party in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has called on separatist groups in the area to lay down their arms in an interview published on Sunday. ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin to Integrate TRADOC Architecture Under New $26.1M Contract Lockheed Martin's IS and GS-Defense product line will provide a host of new enterprise architecture services to the U.S. Army under a recent $26.1 million contract. Under the ITES-2 indefinite ... more | .. |
![]() Yemen navy foils suicide attack: ministry Yemen's navy has foiled a suicide bomb attack on one of its warships off the coast of the Al-Qaeda stronghold of Abyan province in the south, the defence ministry said on its Internet site on Sunday. ... more | .. |
![]() Kazakhstan reels from impact of nuclear tests, 20 years on The 79-year-old Yevdokia Matushkina struggles to remember. Her memories often fail her. ... more |
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![]() EU, NATO refuse to recognise Abkhazia elections The European Union and NATO refused on Saturday to recognise elections in Georgia's rebel region of Abkhazia, as they reiterated their support for the territorial integrity of Georgia. ... more | .. |
![]() Tripoli humanitarian situation new battle for Libyan rebels Libyan rebels were facing a new battle on Saturday, struggling to provide Tripoli's residents with water, electricity, petrol and food, amid power outages and with much of the capital's water cut. ... more | .. |
![]() 25 killed in north Iraq bus crash At least 25 people, all but one of them women and children, were killed when a bus caught fire after being hit by a car in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, a police chief said. ... more | .. |
![]() Iran begins making carbon fiber, despite ban Iran on Saturday inaugurated a plant for producing carbon fiber, which it is banned from importing by international sanctions targeting dual-use materials, the official IRNA news agency reported. ... more |
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![]() NATO condemns bombing of UN building in Nigeria NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Saturday denounced the suicide bombing against UN headquarters in Nigeria as a "dreadful and heinous" act. ... more | .. |
![]() Kim returns to N. Korea after Russia, China visits North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il returned to Pyongyang on Saturday, state media said, after a week-long visit to Russia and China where he expressed a willingness to return to six-party nuclear talks. ... more | .. |
![]() Iran condemns 'Israel spy' to death Iran on Sunday sentenced to death a man accused of playing a key role in the 2010 murder of a top nuclear scientist and of spying for Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported. ... more | .. |
![]() Kadhafi hometown bombed, rebels poised to attack British warplanes bombed a bunker in Moamer Kadhafi's birthplace of Sirte as rebel fighters prepared to attack the town, one of the last major regime holdouts east of Tripoli. ... more |
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![]() US, Israel concerned about Syrian weapons: report The United States and Israel are monitoring Syria's suspected arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, fearing that terror groups could take advantage of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad to obtain chemical agents and long-range missiles, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. ... more | .. |
![]() Concern heightens as 9-11 approaches Security concerns are heightening in the United States as the country approaches the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 Islamist terror attacks. ... more | .. |
![]() Israel seeks to buy U.S. equipment in Iraq Israel's Defense Ministry is negotiating with the Pentagon to buy U.S. military equipment in Iraq that's due to be shelved as surplus or sold as the last contingent of U.S. forces prepared to withdraw. ... more | .. |
![]() Libya limits EU, NATO options in Syria An uncertain political outcome in Libya is tying the hands of EU and NATO decision-makers as they weigh options in response to the government-led bloodbath in Syria. ... more |
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![]() As Libya rebels march, covert role of NATO states emerges The role some NATO states are playing to help Libyan rebels bring down Moamer Kadhafi puts the alliance in an awkward position after repeated denials that it works hand-in-hand with the rebellion. ... more | .. |
![]() Fear of civil war in Libya seen at heart of S.Africa policy South Africa has played an often contrarian role in the Libyan conflict, the product of a foreign policy driven by fear of Iraq-like instability and the desire to see Africa solve its own problems, analysts say. ... more | .. |
![]() EADS tots UH-72A delivery milestone The U.S. subsidiary of Europe's EADS Group has achieved a milestone on the UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter program. ... more | .. |
![]() India commissions second stealth frigate India has commissioned the Satpura warship, the second of what it calls "stealth" frigates, in a ceremony in Mumbai, the Business Standard newspaper said. ... more |
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