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Israel tests 'Iran missile' amid war talkTel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 2, 2011 Israel has test-fired a ballistic missile believed to be a nuclear-capable Jericho-3 and the type of weapon that could be used in any assault on Iran's nuclear program. The launch gave an added urgency to a swirling national debate that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is pushing his Cabinet to support a pre-emptive strike against Iran despite stern opposition from many in Israel's defense establishment and from the United States. The liberal daily Haaretz reported that opponent ... read more |
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  Lockheed Martin Conducts Pac-3 Missile Test at White Sands Missile Range Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile successfully detected, tracked and intercepted an aerodynamic tactical ballistic missile target in a flight test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The test inc ... more | .. |
 ATK Awarded Contract for Third LRIP Lot of AARGM ATK has announced that it has been awarded a $54.4-million contract by the U.S. Navy for a third lot of low-rate initial production (LRIP) Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles (AARGM). The contra ... more | .. |
  P and W Rocketdyne Selected to Test New Liquid Propulsion System The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne a $14 million contract to test new liquid-propulsion technologies that could be used to help intercept incoming ballistic missiles ... more | .. |
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  Cassidian has Developed Most Powerful Ground Surveillance Radar Worldwide Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has developed the world's most powerful radar for battlefield surveillance for use by the German Armed Forces. Owing to a combination of the lat ... more | .. |
 CREW: Helping Defeat IEDs "If it's on it's going to work. So it's 100 percent effective," explained Eddi Bowers, the Regional Support Center-Kandahar site lead, about the Counter Radio Electronic Warfare system. CREW s ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Needed: A new Nixon With potential budget cuts looming that would, at best, decimate U.S. military spending, the Obama White House and the Pentagon are scrambling to invent a strategy to shape fiscal reality. ... more | .. |
 Eurocopter breaks ground on Mexico plant The Mexico subsidiary of French company Eurocopter has broken ground on a manufacturing facility for aeronautical components and subassemblies. ... more |
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Lunar rocks help scientists pinpoint when the moon crystallized
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  Eight killed in Iraq motorbike bombings: doctor Three motorbikes rigged with explosives blew up in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra late on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 22, a doctor and police said. ... more | .. |
 US finds Russian 'merchant of death' guilty A New York jury Wednesday found a Russian arms dealer, dubbed "the merchant of death," guilty of conspiring to sell a huge arsenal to US-designated terrorists, in a case which has angered Moscow. ... more | .. |
 Israel tests rocket amid talk of possible Iran strike Israel on Wednesday successfully tested what local media called a "ballistic missile" as speculation in the Jewish state grew over the possibility of an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. ... more | .. |
 Japan lawmakers to visit N. Korea: report Japanese lawmakers plan to visit North Korea next week, hoping to discuss with the communist state its nuclear status and a row over kidnappings, a broadcaster said Wednesday. ... more |
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 China military accepts heavier, tattooed recruits China's military is accepting heavier recruits and will no longer reject people for sporting prominent tattoos as it steps up a drive to attract young, new entrants, state media said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Cybercrime gurus warn of disguised threats Often criticized for thriving on threat perceptions, the security industry is close to admitting that its foes in a burgeoning global gangland of cybercrime are getting more clever, multimedia savvy and becoming masters of disguise. ... more | .. |
  War, what war? Issues to dodge in 2012 election There's still a war on, the planet is said to keep heating up, and a lot of Americans remain upset over things like race and abortion. But don't expect to hear much about any of that in next year's presidential election. ... more | .. |
 Israel hikes missile range over Iran fears Israel is reported to be seeking to extend the range of its Jericho- 3 ballistic missile, which could be used for pre-emptive military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. ... more |
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SFL Missions Inc. Secures CSA Contract for HAWC Satellite Concept Study
Multinational research project shows how life on Earth can be measured from space
How life's building blocks formed on early Earth examined through polyester protocell formation limits | .. |
  Berlin 'threatens 6th sub sale to Israel' Germany has reportedly threatened to halt the delivery to Israel of a sixth Dolphin class submarine, supposedly capable of firing nuclear-tipped missiles at Iran, in protest against plans to build 1,100 homes for Jewish settlers in an East Jerusalem suburb. ... more | .. |
  NATO officially ends Libya operations NATO has ended its Libyan military campaign after thousands of combat sorties and billions of dollars of alliance and individual participant expenditures. ... more | .. |
  Seven suspected rebels dead in Colombia army raid Seven suspected leftist FARC rebels were killed and five others captured in an overnight army raid on a camp operated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the defense minister said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 No post-2011 US bases in Iraqi Kurdistan: official There will not be American bases in north Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region after the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq by year's end, a top Kurdish official told AFP on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Iraq death toll up sharply in October The number of Iraqis killed rose sharply in October, making it the first month since January in which the toll was higher than the same period a year ago, official figures showed on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Iraqi Kurd leader to visit Turkey: prime minister Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani will visit Turkey at the weekend, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, just days after Ankara ended a major military operation against Kurdish rebels. ... more | .. |
 Secret teams guarded Kadhafi mustard gas in war Libyan and NATO secret agents kept watch over hidden stocks of mustard gas, stockpiled by ex-dictator Moamer Kadhafi, throughout the war which toppled him to prevent his forces using them. ... more | .. |
 For wounded Marines, a 'lollipop' to ease pain US Marines badly wounded in Afghanistan may get a "lollipop" with a powerful pain killer from now on instead of the traditional shot of morphine, a Marine Corps spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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Lula pushes mega-oil project as Brazil prepares to host COP30
Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'
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 New worries over Iran, N. Korea nuclear intent: report The head of the international atomic watchdog raised new concerns about the nuclear drives by Iran and North Korea in his annual report to the UN. ... more | .. |
 74 kilos of uranium ore stolen from Romania depot Eight cylinders containing 73.5 kilos (161 pounds) of uranium ore were stolen from a radioactive materials storage depot in northern Romania, authorities said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 US must close Kyrgyz base in 2014: president-elect The United States will have to shut down the base it currently uses in Kyrgyzstan for support operations in Afghanistan, the Central Asian republic's president-elect said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Russian foreign minister targets NATO missile shield Russia could take steps of "a technically military nature" if its objections to NATO's planned missile defence system are not heeded, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a Serbian daily Tuesday. ... more |
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 Security scanners go big, aim for planes Anti-terrorism and security scanning is aiming for bigger targets including whole aircraft as part of an effort to cut costs and simplify monitoring processes. ... more | .. |
 China deports 5,000 N.Korea refugees annually: activists China repatriates about 5,000 North Korean refugees each year even though they often face harsh punishment on their return, South Korean activists said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 US ready to sell F-35 fighter to India: Pentagon The United States would be prepared to sell India the new F-35 fighter jet, the Pentagon said Wednesday, after New Delhi rejected a US offer of older aircraft in a major competition this year. ... more | .. |
 In Israel, speculation over strike on Iran grows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking cabinet support for a military strike on Iran, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday, after days of speculation about plans for an attack. ... more |
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