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Iran unveils 'indigenous' droneMoscow (Voice of Russia) Sep 27, 2012 Iran has unveiled its own, "indigenous" drone which it said was capable of flying over most of the Middle East, media report. The Witness 129 unmanned drone has a range of 2,000km and can be equipped with bombs and missiles, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says. Last year, the Iranian authorities displayed a US drone which they claimed to have brought down electronically. Iran's state aerospace agency then said it was trying to build a copy of the American unmanned aircraft. Its unveilin ... read more |
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  Mobile missile complexes: Russia's nuclear shield future The Teykovskaya Division of Russia's Strategic Missile Troops located in the Ivanovo region is the first division fully rearmed with the new Topol-M (SS-27) and RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin's DAGR Missile Demonstrates Ground Launch Capability In Guided Flight Tests Lockheed Martin recently conducted two separate DAGR missile flight tests, successfully firing the missiles from a prototype pedestal launcher and hitting a stationary target. The tests, which ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Strategic pivot to nowhere When Britain and France launched pre-emptive military strikes last year that would eventually depose Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his regime, one of President Barack Obama's most senior advisers described U.S. involvement as "leading from behind," a most unfortunate descriptor that haunted the administration much as George W. Bush's "mission accomplished" label early in the 2003 Iraq war repeatedly hounded him. ... more | .. |
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  Syria bombs show rebels' striking power The double bombing of the Syrian army's general staff headquarters in a heavily guarded quarter of Damascus Wednesday severely jolted the embattled regime of President Bashar Assad and points to the rebels' growing military capabilities. ... more | .. |
  Chinese citizen arrested over US military exports A Chinese citizen has been charged in New York with illegally attempting to export highly restricted material from the United States for use by China's air force, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Iran hits out at US plan to take MEK off terror list Tehran on Wednesday condemned a planned move by Washington to remove an Iranian opposition group based abroad, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, from its blacklist of designated terrorist groups. ... more | .. |
  China carrier 'more stepping-stone' than milestone The debut of China's first aircraft carrier marks a symbolic milestone for the growing military power, but analysts said the second-hand vessel remains far from a strategic game-changer. ... more |
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Airbus-built SpainSat NG-I satellite successfully launched
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  Bombings and shootings kill eight in Iraq Bombings and shootings mainly targeting Iraqi security forces killed eight people on Wednesday, among them a senior police officer, security and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
 Ahmadinejad slams West's 'nuclear intimidation' Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West and Israel of nuclear "intimidation" on Wednesday, after US President Barack Obama vowed to halt Tehran's alleged weapons program. ... more | .. |
 Iran sanctions having effect: Israel deputy minister International sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme are having an effect, but have not yet convinced Tehran to step back, Israel's deputy foreign minister said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 AUVSI Praises State-Based Effort To Move Unmanned Aircraft Technology Forward Today, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) applauded the Aerospace States Association's (ASA) call on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to move forward with it ... more |
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 China's Liaoning carrier enters service China's first aircraft carrier officially entered service at a ceremony attended by President Hu Jintao and other senior Communist Party leaders. ... more | .. |
  Taliban likely to regain power in Kabul: analyst The Afghan government will collapse and Taliban insurgents are likely to retake power after the US and NATO pull their troops out in 2014, a respected international scholar has predicted. ... more | .. |
 Japan Inc. sees 'China risks' anew in island row Riots at Japanese factories, stricter customs inspections and other barriers thrown up over a territorial row have reawakened an alarmed Japan Inc. to the risks of doing business with China, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Japan warns China against 'attacks' in island spat Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda insisted Wednesday there could be no compromise with China on the ownership of a disputed island chain and denounced attacks on Japanese interests. ... more |
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Climate Change Accelerates Species Shuffling, New Study Reveals
China's DeepSeek-R1: A Game-Changing AI Release or Strategic Gesture?
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 Netanyahu 'working in every way' to prevent a nuclear Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was using all available means to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, on the eve of his address to the UN General Assembly. ... more | .. |
Japan warns China against island spat 'attacks' Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda insisted Wednesday there could be no compromise with China on the ownership of a disputed island chain and denounced attacks on Japanese interests. ... more | .. |
 Egypt's Morsi warns Israel over 'law of the jungle' threats Egypt's new president on Wednesday hit out at Israel over its veiled threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and the deadlock in the Middle East peace process. ... more | .. |
Ahmadinejad slams West's 'nuclear intimidation' Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West and Israel of nuclear "intimidation" on Wednesday, after US President Barack Obama vowed to halt Tehran's alleged weapon program. ... more |
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 West complicit in Syria 'massacres': rebel leader A Syrian rebel commander has accused the West of being complicit in the "unprecedented massacres" committed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces by refusing to arm the rebels with anti-aircraft weapons. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Receives Contract for 11 P-8A Poseidon Aircraft The U.S. Navy on Sept. 21 awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] a $1.9 billion contract for 11 P-8A Poseidon aircraft, which will take the total fleet to 24 and bolster the service's anti-submarine, anti-surfac ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Extend BACN Communications Connectivity to the Tactical Edge The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $20 million contract modification to add beyond-line-of-sight command and control (BLOS C2) capabilities to the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node ... more | .. |
 US Army Awards Lockheed Martin Apache M-TADS/PNVS Performance Based Logistics Contract Lockheed Martin has received a $111 million Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract from the U.S. Army. ... more |
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Ukrainian drone barrage on Russia kills two, hits oil refinery
EdgeCortix SAKURA-I AI Accelerator Validated for Radiation Resilience in Space Missions
'Good news': Dutch chip giant ASML welcomes DeepSeek | .. |
 Raytheon MALD-J Decoy Goes 4 for 4 in Operational Flight Tests The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon have begun operational testing of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer (MALD-J). After completing a highly successful developmental test phase, the MALD-J team ach ... more | .. |
 Raytheon and PACAF expand the reach of realistic training environments Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon has announced that its SimShield customer, U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and its 353d Combat Training Squadron, ha ... more | .. |
 Fueling the Fleet, Navy Looks to the Seas Refueling U.S. Navy vessels, at sea and underway, is a costly endeavor in terms of logistics, time, fiscal constraints and threats to national security and sailors at sea. In Fiscal Year 2011, ... more | .. |
 China to promote drones for marine surveillance China will promote the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to strengthen the nation's marine surveillance, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said on Sunday. The SOA verifie ... more |
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 Raytheon to provide Joint Tactical Terminal radios with latest security features to US Navy Raytheon has received an $8.7 million modification to a previously awarded production contract to provide the U.S. Navy with Joint Tactical Terminal Senior (JTT-Sr) radios that are compatible with t ... more | .. |
  Israel postpones vital Arrow-3 flight test The crucial first test-firing of Israel's Arrow-3 interceptor missile, designed to destroy ballistic weapons, reportedly has been postponed despite efforts to boost the Jewish state's missile defenses amid threats of pre-emptive strikes against Iran. ... more | .. |
Iran: Hard-liners play rough as poll nears The arrest of two children of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in recent days is seen as an attempt by hard-liners to ensure he doesn't run in the 2013 presidential election or throw his political weight behind moderates. ... more | .. |
Iran boosts air defenses, but holes remain Iran's been showing off a new air-defense system designed to counter U.S., and Israeli, airstrikes. But Western military analysts say there are a lot of holes in the network that could prove costly for Tehran if fighting erupts in the Persian Gulf. ... more |
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