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Taiwan to produce new anti-China missiles: lawmakerTaipei (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 Taiwan is expected to mass produce a potent new missile system designed to nip a Chinese invasion in the bud by striking airfields and harbours on the mainland, a lawmaker said Tuesday. The defence ministry has brought forward production of the "Wan Chien" missile to as early as 2014 from 2018 to equip locally-developed fighter jets with the new system, said lawmaker Lin Yu-fang, who is also military pundit. "If all goes smoothly mass production for 'Wan Chien' missile can start three to four ye ... read more |
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  No snap checks of atomic units: Iran nuclear chief Iran clarified on Tuesday that its offer of allowing "full supervision" of its atomic programme in return for lifting of sanctions does not include snap checks by UN inspectors of its nuclear units. ... more | .. |
 Israeli missiles to protect S.Korea border: report South Korea has reached a deal to buy precision-guided missiles from an Israeli company to protect islands near the tense sea border with North Korea, a report said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin/KAMAN K-MAX Completes US Navy Unmanned Cargo Assessment The Lockheed Martin-led unmanned K-MAX team successfully completed a five-day Quick Reaction Assessment (QRA) for the U.S. Navy's Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program. "The autonomous ... more | .. |
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  Environmental Testing of New Military Communications Satellite Completed Lockheed Martin has completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, a major program milestone that validates spacecraft performance in a simu ... more | .. |
  Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer Demonstrates Capability to Protect Manned Aircraft The U.S. Air Force demonstrated that Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer could protect aircraft when it completed the first test of the MALD-J in a simulated operational environment. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Receives Contract For Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb Kits Lockheed Martin has received a $100.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for production of paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) GBU-12 guidance kits. The award to Lockheed Martin repr ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives US Air Force Contract for A-10 Avionics Modernization Boeing has been awarded a one-year, $2.9 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop and validate a modification of the A-10 aircraft's Digital Video Audio Data Recorder (DVADR). The modificat ... more |
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Ariane 6 to deliver inaugural Galileo 2nd Gen satellites as European industry backs Arianespace
Momentus to conduct multi sensor rendezvous trial with US Air Force
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  Beijing denies arms sales to Gadhafi's men Beijing denied it had any contact with Moammar Gadhafi's arms buyers during their July trip to China, although private companies met them, a government official said. ... more | .. |
 Iran: Muslim nations shouldn't serve NATO Muslim countries such as Turkey shouldn't serve the interests of the U.S.-European NATO military alliance, a prominent Iranian lawmaker says. ... more | .. |
 Israel 'doesn't want further deterioration' in Turkey ties Israel does not want its relationship with Turkey to deteriorate any further, an official said on Tuesday, after Ankara said it was freezing arms trade and defence ties with the Jewish state. ... more | .. |
  Petraeus sworn in as new CIA chief David Petraeus was sworn in Tuesday as head of the CIA to direct the civilian covert war against Al-Qaeda after years of command in Iraq and Afghanistan as America's most influential general. ... more |
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  Dutch launch Iran IT hacking probe The Dutch secret service has opened an investigation to determine who falsified 531 Internet security certificates in order to snoop on users in Iran, the Dutch Interior Ministry said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  US pushed UN on Taiwan identity: WikiLeaks The United States and other countries persuaded the United Nations to stop using the phrase "Taiwan is part of China", according to a document released by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. ... more | .. |
  Iraqi Kurdistan chief calls for US troops to stay The president of north Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region called on Tuesday for US forces to stay beyond a 2011 deadline to avoid a civil war, accusing political leaders of hypocrisy on the issue. ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: Two anniversaries The 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 has overshadowed that other anniversary on Sept. 3, the outbreak of World War II, when Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. ... 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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 Renditions roil U.K. Parliament The British government is embroiled in a new renditioning controversy following the capture of the Libyan capital of Tripoli by rebel forces. ... more | .. |
  US air force secretary holds Iraq talks US Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley was in Iraq on Tuesday for a visit that an Iraqi defence ministry spokesman said included talks on F-16 fighter jets, which Iraq is seeking to buy. ... more | .. |
 North Korea upgrades jamming devices: report North Korea is upgrading jamming devices to disrupt South Korean military communications, Yonhap news agency said Tuesday, citing a defence ministry report. ... more | .. |
 9/11 memories fire US troops in uncertain Afghan war Many American soldiers were still schoolchildren on 9/11, but the attacks drew them to the frontlines of a US adventure in Afghanistan that even after a decade has no certain outcome. ... more |
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 NATO says not tracking 'fleeing former regime leaders' NATO is not tracking "fleeing former regime leaders" in Libya, an alliance spokesman said Tuesday, after a Libyan military convoy with Moamer Kadhafi rumoured aboard crossed into Niger. ... more | .. |
 Qaeda offshoot acquires Libyan air missiles: EU Al-Qaeda's north African branch has acquired a stockpile of weapons in Libya, including surface-to-air missiles that are threatening air travel, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Lebanon speaker pleased with 2006 Israel raids: leak Lebanon's parliament speaker, a seemingly unshakeable ally of the powerful Shiite Hezbollah, drew pleasure from Israel's deadly raids on the militant group in 2006, a leaked US diplomatic cable said. ... more | .. |
Top Kadhafi security chief in Niger: sources Members of fugitive Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's entourage, including his internal security chief Mansour Daw, have crossed the border into Niger, sources told AFP Monday. ... more |
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Google pledge against using AI for weapons vanishes
MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
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NATO's Libya mission closer to end: Rasmussen NATO's mission in Libya has moved significantly closer to success and will end soon, the military alliance's secretary general said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Iran offers 'full' nuclear supervision if sanctions lifted Iran offered on Monday to grant the UN nuclear watchdog "full supervision" of its atomic programme for five years if sanctions are lifted, as the EU insisted Tehran first meet its international obligations. ... more | .. |
 World is safer 10 years after 9/11: EU, NATO The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Iran 'undecided' on Kurdish rebel ceasefire Iran has yet to decide on a call by Kurdish rebels for a ceasefire in a major offensive it launched along the Iraqi border last week, the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Monday. ... more |
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 Iraq's Sadr gives govt 'last chance' for reform Radical anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Monday he is giving the Iraqi government a "last chance" to implement reforms, or popular demonstrations would be called. ... more | .. |
  Iran criticises NATO's Turkey radar plan A senior Iranian diplomat criticised neighbouring Turkey on Monday for agreeing to host an early warning radar as part of NATO's missile defence system for Europe. ... more | .. |
 China denies providing weapons to Libya Chinese companies have not provided Libya with any "military products", China's foreign ministry said Tuesday, after reports of Beijing offering weapons to the ousted Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. ... more |
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