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Air Force fiscal 2013 budget invests in critical space capabilitiesWashington (AFNS) Feb 24, 2012 Investment in space programs was a priority in this year's Air Force budget, according to Undersecretary of the Air Force Erin Conaton. Air Force leaders sought to sustain and modernize the capabilities that enable the service to support the Department of Defense's new strategic guidance, Conaton told reporters during a media roundtable Feb. 17 in the Pentagon. The U.S. military continues to rely heavily on Air Force space programs for a wide variety of activities that allow the military to ... read more |
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 Russia to Launch 100 Military Satellites in Next Decade Russia is planning to launch at least 100 military satellites in the next 10 years to boost its reconnaissance and missile detection capabilities, head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Vladimir Pop ... more | .. |
  Turkey plans to buy 100 US F-35 fighters: report Turkey is planning to purchase 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters worth $16 billion in an attempt to meet its future air force needs, Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz was quoted as saying Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Completes First Test of JSOW-ER Warhead Raytheon has completed the first test of the warhead and fuze for the Joint Standoff Weapon Extended Range. "JSOW-ER's design will enable the warfighter to attack land-based and moving maritim ... more | .. |
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  China's Xi pleases crowd, gives little away on tour Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on Thursday after a high-profile foreign tour that analysts say put a more human face on China's leader-in-waiting, but gave away little about his politics. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon's JLENS Proves Tracking Capabilities During Test Raytheon's Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) recently completed Demonstration Test 1 (DT-1), proving its ability to track targets and integrate with fire ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Expands Facility For F-35 Component Manufacturing In Pinellas Park, Fla. Lockheed Martin's operation in Pinellas Park has officially opened a new 57,000 square foot manufacturing facility to produce aircraft canopy components for the F-35 Lightning II fighter. The ... more | .. |
  Innocon has received an order for its MiniFalcon II Tactical UAV Innocon, designing and manufacturing a wide range of innovative and unique UAVs, announced it has received an order for its Tactical UAV system, MiniFalcon II, from Northland Community and Technical ... more |
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Caltech takes first steps toward lightsails that could reach distant star systems
Fifth H-3 rocket successfully launches Michibiki No. 6 satellite
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  Longbow Delivers First Production Block III Apache Data Link System to US Army LONGBOW, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, recently delivered the first production Unmanned Aerial Systems Tactical Common Data Link Assembly (UTA) to the U.S. Army for t ... more | .. |
  Britain ordering tankers from Daewoo Britain plans to order four 35,000-ton fuel tankers for the British navy's auxiliary fleet from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering of South Korea. ... more | .. |
 India eyes more Kazan Mi-17 V5 helicopters India is looking to buy 71 more Russian-made Mi-17 V5 helicopters on top of the 80 on order from the manufacturer Kazan Helicopters. ... more | .. |
  Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, to be presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equ ... more |
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  'All options' on table on Iran: Israel president Israeli President Shimon Peres warned on Thursday that the Jewish state is keeping "all options" on the table on the issue of Iran's nuclear activities. ... more | .. |
  Nigeria defence chief says Boko Haram has ties to Al-Qaeda Nigeria's military chief said Thursday the Islamist Boko Haram sect, blamed for attacks that have claimed hundreds of lives, has ties to Al-Qaeda, the first time a top security official has publicly drawn such links. ... more | .. |
  Pakistan's 'bad boys' - alleged codes behind secret memo An American businessman who has implicated Pakistan's president in an attempt to remove the country's powerful army chief claimed Thursday that security bosses were given the codename "bad boys". ... more | .. |
 Pakistan tribesmen protest US drone strikes Hundreds of armed tribesmen on Thursday rallied against US drone attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, demanding compensation for damage and losses, witnesses said. ... more |
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LA fires fully contained after burning for 3 weeks: state agency
Scientists cast doubt on famous US groundhog's weather forecasts
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  Human rights probe slams Damascus regime A UN human rights probe found on Thursday Syria had "manifestly failed" to protect its people as a defiant regime brushed off an outcry over the killing of two journalists, saying they had entered illegally and at their own risk. ... more | .. |
 Mumbai gets base for counter-terror troops A fully-equipped regional hub for specialist counter-terrorism troops was inaugurated in Mumbai on Thursday, more than three years after the deadly attacks by Islamist gunmen that left 166 people dead. ... more | .. |
 WikiLeaks suspect charged, declines to enter plea WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning declined to enter a plea as the US Army private was formally charged on Thursday with turning over a cache of classified US documents to WikiLeaks. ... more | .. |
  'Qaeda' attacks kill 42, wound over 250 in Iraq A wave of attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 42 people on Thursday, in what Iraq's parliament speaker said was an attempt to derail an Arab League summit planned for the end of March. ... more |
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 US, North Korea hold first talks since Kim's death A senior US diplomat said Thursday he had held "serious and substantive" talks with North Korea's nuclear envoy in Beijing, the first such contact between the two nations since leader Kim Jong-Il died. ... more | .. |
 Iran protests to UN over Israel 'war game' campaign Iran on Wednesday accused Israel of assassinating its nuclear scientists as part of a "war game" while it denied any role in attacks on Israeli diplomatic targets in several countries. ... more | .. |
 NATO denies responsibility for Afghan school attack NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force Thursday denied involvement in what Afghans said was a helicopter attack on a school that injured nine children in eastern Nangarhar province. ... more | .. |
 US Army Fires Raytheon Griffin Missile During Forward Operating Base Protection Test The U.S. Army precisely engaged targets using the Raytheon Griffin B missile as part of a test to protect forward operating bases (FOBs) and small combat outposts. "Griffin enables ground forc ... more |
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Trump says tariff 'pain' will be 'worth the price'
Portugal lawmakers take step toward deep-sea mining ban
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 Raytheon Engages Malaysian Industry for Missile Work Raytheon awarded an initial contract to Malaysian-based Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn. Bhd. for the production and supply of components for the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM). This is the ... more | .. |
 Third MEADS Battle Manager Arrives In Huntsville for Integration Testing Lockheed Martin has begun integration testing on the third completed Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle manager at its facility in Huntsville, Ala. Integration testing on the th ... more | .. |
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 Former S. Korea assembly speaker indicted Former National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae and former presidential aide Kim Hyo-jae have been indicted for their alleged involvement in a political bribery scandal. ... more |
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Doubts over new Canadian hub in Germany Canadian plans to create a defense logistics hub in Germany are in doubt after complications arising from German objections over potential noise pollution. ... more | .. |
 Anglo-French UAV cooperation progresses The governments of Britain and France are moving forward with plans to acquire a range of unmanned aerial vehicles. ... more | .. |
Russia warns against 'catastrophic' attack on Iran Russia on Wednesday warned a strike against Iran could have "catastrophic" consequences and urged nations not to draw early conclusions from this week's failed mission by UN nuclear experts. ... more | .. |
 S. Korea appeals to China on N. Korea refugees South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak urged China Wednesday to follow international norms in handling North Korean refugees, as his government pressed Beijing not to repatriate them. ... more |
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