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The ethics of unmanned vehicle warfareWashington (UPI) Dec 8, 2011 The U.S. military has faced criticism over the ethics of the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles as the number of strikes carried out with drones skyrocketed in recent years. The premise for the criticism is that the robotic technology, formally called unmanned aerial vehicles, is a new type of weapon that has killed thousands of people in recent years, so it needs an entirely new ethical framework. But others see it as a new style of weapon, not a new style of warfare. "I think t ... read more |
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 US drone penetrated 250 km: Iran protest The US drone which Iran said it had brought down penetrated 250 kilometres (150 miles) inside the Islamic republic's air space, state television's website reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Airman brings space to ground forces Satellite communications and Global Positioning Systems are common battlefield tools for U.S. and coalition forces in today's overseas contingency operations. Occasionally, these tools can be hinder ... more | .. |
  NATO, Russia fail to defuse missile defence row NATO and Russia failed to resolve a rift over a European missile shield on Thursday but agreed to press on with negotiations aimed at reaching a cooperation deal. ... more | .. |
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  Raytheon Awarded Contract to Advance Thermal Imagers Manufacturing Raytheon has been awarded $13.4 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Low Cost Thermal Imaging Manufacturing (LCTI-M) program. The goal of LCTI-M is to dev ... more | .. |
  EU sanctions on Iran will impact Europe: analysts EU sanctions on Iran's oil exports will hurt European refiners which rely on crude from the Islamic republic to help power ailing economies such as Greece, Italy and Spain, according to analysts. ... more | .. |
 Satellite Tracking Specialist, Track24, wins Canadian Government Contract Track24 has won a contract to supply the Canadian government with short burst data (SBD) services from Iridium Communications Inc., operator of the world's furthest reaching communications network. ... more | .. |
 Iran airs footage of US drone, protests 'violation' Iran made a formal protest on Thursday over a US drone entering "deep" into its eastern airspace last week, and aired footage of what appeared to be the downed aircraft on state television. ... more |
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Rocket Lab launches 5th satellite batch for Kineis IoT constellation
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  NATO fuel trucks destroyed in Pakistan attack: police Militants destroyed at least 34 trucks in a rocket attack Thursday on a NATO trucking terminal in southwest Pakistan supplying troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said. ... more | .. |
  Iraq seeks to convince Syria to sign Arab deal Iraq said it would try to convince neighbouring Syria to accept an Arab League deal to end unrest and head off sweeping economic sanctions, during a visit by the group's chief to Baghdad on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Women to serve on British submarines: minister Women will be allowed to serve on British navy submarines, with female officers taking up roles from late 2013, defence minister Philip Hammond announced Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Australia receives final Tiger helicopter Australian Aerospace delivered the last of 22 Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters to the army at the company's final assembly plant at Brisbane Airport. ... more |
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  Smartphone probe exposes computer risks As a global outcry spotlights what smartphones may do without their user's knowledge renewed questions are being asked about computer hardware and software and the secrets that remain hidden from public view. ... more | .. |
 Plextek picks tracking technology supplier British technology firm Cambridge Pixel has been contracted by Plextek Ltd. to supply tracking technology for electronic ground-scanning surveillance radar. ... more | .. |
  Obama to mark US withdrawal from Iraq at base President Barack Obama will mark the final withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq next week by addressing returning soldiers at a base in North Carolina, the White House said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  US military a prime 'target' for home-grown terrorists The US military is under threat in its own country as homegrown Islamic extremists, including "radicalized troops," are treating military installations here as prime targets, US officials warned Congress Wednesday. ... 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 | .. |
  NATO seeks to mend fences with Russia on missile shield NATO and Russia began a fresh push on Thursday to resolve a deep rift over a European missile shield with the alliance chief insisting again that it was not pointed at Moscow. ... more | .. |
 US says North Korea talks depend on concrete steps The top US envoy on North Korea Thursday urged the communist state to take concrete steps to revive long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks, saying he had no interest in "talks for talks' sake". ... more | .. |
 Remains of 274 US troops dumped in landfill: report The US Air Force dumped the cremated, partial remains of at least 274 troops in a landfill before halting the secretive practice in 2008, the Washington Post reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US Republicans urge covert ops against Iran, Syria Republican US presidential candidates have redoubled their public calls for "covert" operations against Iran and Syria, including sabotage, assassination and aid to opposition forces. ... more |
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 US denies seeking to 'contain' China Moves by Washington to strengthen military ties in the Pacific are not aimed at containing China, a senior US defence official said Thursday, after holding talks with her Chinese counterpart. ... more | .. |
 'Extremists' within reach of Pakistan nukes: Gingrich Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal was at risk of being seized by "extremists" who had probably infiltrated Islamabad's military. ... more | .. |
 Coastal radar offers unprecedented performance of littoral surveillance Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, introduces a new security radar into the market which opens up completely new opportunities for the wide-area protection of coastlines, maritime ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance System to Air Force An airborne signals intelligence system configured specifically for the newest C-130J aircraft has been delivered to the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin. The system, which is part of the Senior Sc ... 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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 Lockheed Martin Delivers Modernized Laser Rangefinder for Apache Helicopter Lockheed Martin delivered the first Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) upgrade prototype units to the U.S. Army for use on the Apache attack helicopter. Five System Design and Development ... more | .. |
 RAAF Extends Northrop Grumman LITENING Advanced Targeting System Contract Northrop Grumman has been awarded a four-year extension by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to the existing support contract for the LITENING AT system, used as the RAAF's Target Designation Sy ... more | .. |
  Counter-IED Market in Decline The latest defence report, The Counter-IED Market 2011-2021: Systems and Technologies for Force Protection, finds a sector that is in decline from unusually high levels of spending in previous years ... more | .. |
 Cyberwarfare Market Worth $15.9 Billion Analysis indicates that the cyberwarfare market will reach a value of $15.9bn in 2012, as governments around the world continue to invest in a range of cyberwarfare systems and solutions designed to ... more |
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 Iranian general steps out of the shadows Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, commander of the covert action wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, is stepping out of the shadows as a leading hard-liner, and as tension with the United States heats up, that's a really bad sign. ... more | .. |
 Commentary: Saudi nuclear option? Afghanistan expects U.S. aid to flow without interruption for six more years following the final U.S. troop withdrawal at the end of 2014 - three years hence. Nothing is less certain. ... more | .. |
 Chinese carrier sets off on sea trials China's only aircraft carrier has begun a second set of sea trials focusing on "relevant scientific research and experiments," China's Ministry of National Defense said. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Pearl Harbor redux Seventy years ago today, the Japanese navy launched strikes against Pearl Harbor sinking much of "Battleship Row," awakening a sleeping giant and forcing the United States into World War II with catastrophic effects for the Axis powers. ... more |
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