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Chile advances plan to build submarineSantiago, Chile (UPI) May 17, 2012 Chile is going ahead with plans to build its own submarine and patrol boats as part of a program to develop the Latin American nation's defense manufacturing industry. Brazil's international success with aviation and defense industrial development has inspired its neighbors to develop their own defense industries, both as a source of export revenue and as a response to growing domestic demand for modernization from the armed forces. Shifting political alliances and economic problems led ... read more |
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  Outside View: Protection of U.S. citizens The Obama administration states that it is concerned about human rights infringements of foreign citizens but seems indifferent to its own people who have been arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges abroad. ... more | .. |
  TRS delivers key missile defense component Ballistic missile defense for NATO countries will be a major topic of discussion at the NATO summit next week in Chicago. ... more | .. |
  Research findings show brain injury to soldiers can arise from exposure to a single explosion A team of investigators have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed military service personnel. Laboratory experiments conducted at Boston Univer ... more | .. |
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  A Dozen Lockheed Martin F-35s Now Call Eglin AFB Home The twelfth Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II destined for the training fleet has arrived at the Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. U.S. Marine Corps pilot Lt. Col. Fred Schenk piloted the aircraft, k ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin's Second Generation Aegis BMD System Successfully Intercepts Missile The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target for the first time, using the second generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missil ... more | .. |
  Raytheon awarded $313.8 million for Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $313.8 million contract for low-rate initial production of Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds. SM-6 leverages the legacy Standard Missile airframe and propulsion ... more | .. |
 ARL-led program enables new manufacturing processes for ballistic protection Researchers with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Weapons and Materials Research Directorate saw the product of their work toward a new generation of significantly improved materials for adva ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman to Explore Opportunities with Brazilian Machining Companies Boeing Super Hornet industry partner Northrop Grumman has signed Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) with two Itajuba-based companies that could expand their precision-machining opportunities in the glo ... more | .. |
  Syrian: Arms seizure shows rebels arming The seizure of a ship off Lebanon carrying arms reportedly destined for rebel forces in neighboring Syria underlines how the 14-month-old conflict there is being increasingly militarized. ... more | .. |
  EU issues mixed report on East neighbors The EU's six closest former Soviet Union neighbors had a mixed record in implementing democratic reforms in 2011, European Commissioners said this week. ... more | .. |
 India ready for U.S. howitzer purchase India's Defense Acquisition Council gave the go-ahead to buy 145 howitzers nearly 25 years after a procurement scandal derailed the purchase. ... more |
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  Iran vows never to renounce nuclear 'rights' Iran rejects Western pressures over its nuclear activities and will never give up its rights, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday ahead of crunch talks with world powers in Baghdad next week. ... more | .. |
 Armed North Koreans kidnap Chinese sailors Twenty-nine Chinese fishermen have been kidnapped at sea by unidentified North Koreans who have demanded 1.2 million yuan ($190,000) in ransom, fellow sailors and media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US military option on Iran 'ready': envoy to Israel The United States has a military option "ready" if diplomacy fails to halt Iran's controversial nuclear programme, the US envoy to Israel has said, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 France's Hollande facing diplomatic crash course in US Just three days after being sworn in, French President Francois Hollande heads to Washington Friday for a crash course in big-power diplomacy in back-to-back summits at the White House, G8 and NATO. ... more |
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Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas
GMV teams up with +Atlantic CoLAB in AIR4Health project to enhance public health forecasting
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 US to bolster Israel's anti-rocket shield: Panetta The United States plans to bolster an Israeli anti-rocket system with $70 million in assistance this year and more funding is likely in the future, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Two US-built minehunters to join Taiwan navy Taiwan is due to receive two coastal minehunters from the United States within months, in a deal aimed at enhancing the island's ability to defend itself against China, the navy said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  US provided intelligence for Turkish air raid: official American spy drones provided intelligence to Turkey's air force for an errant bombing raid in December that killed 35 civilians instead of Kurdish separatists, a US defense official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Italy deploys police to protect 550 people after shooting Italy has deployed 2,000 officers to protect 550 people after the shooting of a nuclear company boss this month in an attack claimed by a violent anarchist group, the interior ministry said on Thursday. ... more |
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  Obama to meet Karzai in Chicago Sunday US President Barack Obama will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Chicago Sunday, as he launches a NATO summit that will mark a "critical milestone" in ending the war, a top official said. ... more | .. |
 No credible threat to NATO summit: FBI There is no credible terror threat to the NATO summit set to get underway Sunday in Chicago but security forces will nonetheless be on high alert, a spokesman for the FBI said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US wants $1 bn a year for Afghanistan, Poland says The US wants allies to contribute $1 billion each year to help fund Afghanistan's security forces after the planned exit of foreign troops by the end of 2014, Poland's foreign minister said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 S. Korea, US, Japan 'to hold talks on N. Korea' South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold high-level talks in Seoul next week about developments in North Korea following its failed long-range rocket launch, a report said Thursday. ... more |
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Low-carbon energy investment hit record $2.1 tn in 2024: report
World awaits Trump tariff deadline on Canada, Mexico and China
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 Lockheed Martin's Aegis Combat System Showcases Integrated Air and Missile Defense Capabilities Lockheed Martin's Aegis Combat System recently demonstrated simultaneous anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense capabilities during its first integrated air and missile defense test. T ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Begins Full Rate Production of Infrared Missile Warning System The U.S. Air Force has authorized full rate production of the NexGen Infrared missile warning system (MWS), a Northrop Grumman-designed, built and tested protection system for C-17, EC-130J, HC/MC-1 ... more | .. |
 Underwater bicycle Experts at the State Marine Technology University in St. Petersburg have invented an "underwater bicycle" or Blue Space that is pedal-powered. Most likely, this will pave the way for studying the un ... more | .. |
 With US shift to Asia, NATO faces new era With its focus shifting to Asia, the United States will seek a less dominant role in NATO in the future but will still turn to European allies "when the chips are down," experts say. ... more |
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 Afghans seek $4.1 billion a year from NATO summit Afghanistan goes to the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday with a firm demand for $4.1 billion a year for its security forces after Western troops pull out in 2014 - and insists it is "not charity". ... more | .. |
 Training missile falls from Army chopper in Texas: US A US Army Apache helicopter accidentally dropped an inactive missile over central Texas, forcing dozens of homes to be evacuated, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 N.Korea moving ahead on reactor: pictures North Korea appears to be moving ahead with the building of a light-water reactor that could be used to support its nuclear weapons program, according to satellite images released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Smiles and frowns over defense deals There are smiles and frowns this week over contracts gained and contracts lost by Europe's defense equipment manufacturers. ... more |
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