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Navy as an instrument of big strategyMoscow (Voice of Russia) Aug 31, 2012 Joint Russian-US-Norwegian Northern Eagle-2012 exercises have ended in the Barents Sea. This kind of joint Russia-NATO exercises have become regular. What does Moscow's animated military cooperation with the former potential adversary mean? At present, the Russian Navy is far behind that of the USSR in the number of ships with good fighting capacity. A huge number of ships, both old and up-to-date, were written off without any replacement in the 1990s-2000s. At the same time, Russia's gradual rein ... read more |
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  PAC-3 Missile Intercepts Tactical Ballistic Missile Target During Test Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile successfully destroyed a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in an Operational Test conducted by the U.S. Army Test and Evalua ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Europe and Iranian sanctions Policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic view tough economic sanctions against Iran as perhaps the last peaceful means of curbing the Islamic Republic's appetite for nuclearization. ... more | .. |
  Commentary: Global blivet When Barak Obama was elected president four years ago, he had the whole world on a string. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, saw him as the man who would restore America's greatness. An estimated 16 percent of Republican voters gave him the nod. ... more | .. |
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  India halts Barak I missile purchase India has put on hold procurement of 262 Israeli-made Barak I missiles until the Central Bureau of Investigation finishes a report into possible corruption. ... more | .. |
  China says US defence chief to visit in September China said Thursday that US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will visit in mid-September, the latest in a flurry of diplomatic activity between the two countries. ... more | .. |
 Defiant Iran doubles capacity at key nuclear site Iran has doubled its capacity at an underground nuclear facility, a UN atomic agency report showed Thursday, in spite of UN Security Council resolutions, sanctions and talk of Israeli military action. ... more | .. |
 UN nuclear watchdog has 'serious concern' over NKorea North Korea's nuclear programme is a matter of "serious concern," the UN atomic agency IAEA said in a report released Thursday, referring in particular to two sites Pyongyang has stopped it from visiting. ... more |
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Searching for Water on the Moon: UC San Diego Researchers Uncover Clues to Lunar Water's Origins
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  Obama to highlight Iraq withdrawal President Barack Obama will Friday mark the second anniversary of his declaration of the end of US combat missions in Iraq, highlighting his leadership credentials at a key political moment. ... more | .. |
  Thales in Australian, Indian ventures French defense industry giant Thales announced the official launch of its munitions business in Australia and a joint venture in India for radar systems. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman's BACN Completes 3,000th E-11A Mission Overseas Northrop Grumman's Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) has completed 3,000 missions flying aboard the E-11A Bombardier Global Express BD-700 aircraft in support of overseas contingency m ... more | .. |
 Boeing Fatigue Test to Validate Predicted Life of B-1 Bomber Fleet Boeing has begun a five-year fatigue test on the wing of a U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber to validate the predicted life of the bomber fleet, currently forecasted to be 2050. The test also will reveal po ... more |
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 Boeing Winged JDAM Completes First Round of Tests A winged version of the Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) that will triple the weapon's glide range to more than 40 miles is a step closer to production after completing wind tunnel tests a ... more | .. |
  Smartphone App Can Track Objects On the Battlefield as Well as On the Sports Field University of Missouri researchers have developed new software using smartphones' GPS and imaging abilities that determine the exact location of distant objects as well as monitor the speed and dire ... more | .. |
  WikiLeaks soldier to face US trial on February 4 US Army Private Bradley Manning will go on trial on February 4 of next year over charges he "aided the enemy" by passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks, a judge said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Boeing to Provide PBL for USAF F-15 Radars Boeing has received an $85 million Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contract for continued support of U.S. Air Force F-15 mechanically scanned and Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars. ... 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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  Norway PM apologizes for terror response Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has apologized for the government's poor response following last year's terror attacks by a right-wing extremist. ... more | .. |
 Australian military suffers worst day since Vietnam Five Australian troops were killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan in what Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday described as the nation's deadliest day in combat since the Vietnam War. ... more | .. |
  Syria rebels claim MiG shot down, Egypt causes storm Rebels said they shot down a MiG warplane on Thursday as violence whipped across Syria ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the country and along its borders. ... more | .. |
 Iran summit stumbles on nuclear, Syria criticism A showpiece summit hosted by Iran stumbled as soon as it opened on Thursday when the head of the UN pressed Tehran on its nuclear stand, and Egypt's new leader publicly sided with Syria's opposition. ... more |
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  Drones, UAV: what is better? Recently Russia has celebrated 100th anniversary of establishing of Russian air force. While celebrating 100th anniversary I have noticed a very important statement which was made by our President M ... more | .. |
 US-China missile race The United States says it's planning to build new missile defence in Asia. White House officials say early warning radar systems could be placed on a remote Japanese island and possibly in the Phili ... more | .. |
  TacSat-4 Participates in US Navy Fleet Experiment Trident Warrior U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite-4 successfully completes three weeks of intense testing, June 28, as part of the Navy's annual Trident Warrior Experiment 2012 (TW12). TacSat-4 is ... 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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 US Army Apache Fleet Surpasses 3.5 Million Flight Hours Boeing and Team Apache suppliers worldwide are applauding the news that the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter fleet has surpassed 3.5 million flight hours. The Army's aviation program office said th ... more | .. |
 U.S. arms sales hit record $66 billion Export of U.S. weapons abroad soared more than three times the previous level in 2011, at least partly because of the continuing tensions over Iran's disputed nuclear program in the Persian Gulf region. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: How much is enough -- Part 2 Given that the United States' latest defense strategy was crafted earlier this year accounting for a nearly $490 billion defense cut over the next 10 years, if the Pentagon were to undertake a new strategic review, how might it go about accomplishing one, assuming the huge initial resistance against such an effort could be overcome? ... more | .. |
 Japan, N. Korea in first face-to-face talks since 2008 Japan and North Korea on Wednesday held their first face-to-face talks in four years, in an attempt to lay the groundwork to overcome decades of mutual distrust. ... more |
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 US welcomes resumed relocation of Camp Ashraf The United States on Wednesday welcomed renewed efforts to relocate residents of a camp in Iraq that for years has housed members of an Iranian opposition group. ... more | .. |
 UN, Iran leaders duel over nuclear issue UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparred in an unusually frank verbal duel on Wednesday over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, betraying high tensions on the issue. ... more | .. |
 Iraq takes delivery of final batch of US tanks Iraq's military took delivery of nine American M1A1 Abrams tanks, the last in an order of 140 that it has received over the past two years, the US embassy in Baghdad said in a statement on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Egypt army presses Sinai drive, says 11 militants dead Egypt's military said its forces were being redeployed on Wednesday to press a campaign against Islamist militants in the Sinai and that 11 "terrorists" have been killed since operations were launched. ... more |
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