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  Dallas TX (SPX) May 11, 2017 Airbus has launched its U.S. base and operations of a new commercial drone start-up, named Airbus Aerial, at the AUVSI Xponential tradeshow and conference in Dallas. With bases both in the U.S. and in Europe, Airbus Aerial's initial business will focus on developing new imagery services. These services will leverage the best software and aerospace technology from across the globe to offer actionable data and analysis of information provided by drones, satellites, high altitude aircraft and other sources ... read more |
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Russian engineers develop new surveillance, missile defense airshipsMoscow (Sputnik) May 10, 2017 Russian engineers are designing new advanced airships which may become a potent element of the country's anti-ballistic missile defenses. On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship Hindenbur ... more  
New S.Korean president talks to China, Japan leadersSeoul (AFP) May 11, 2017 South Korea's new president Moon Jae-In spoke to the leaders of China and Japan Thursday, hours after a telephone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump, officials said, as he began shaping his approach to the nuclear-armed North. ... more 
CIA forms special unit focused on North Korea threatWashington (AFP) May 10, 2017 The US Central Intelligence Agency said Wednesday it had formed a special unit dedicated to assessing North Korea's nuclear weapons threat. ... more  
US ready to add capabilities to deter Russia in Europe: MattisVilnius (AFP) May 10, 2017 Pentagon chief Jim Mattis on Wednesday said the United States and NATO are prepared to deploy any capabilities necessary to help beef up air defence systems in the Baltic region. ... more |
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Modi heads to Sri Lanka as Chinese influence risesColombo (AFP) May 11, 2017 India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Sri Lanka on Thursday on a charm offensive as New Delhi seeks to reassert its influence on the island amid signs of a Chinese comeback. ... more  
Elbit Systems receives Brazilian contract for C4ISR(UPI) May 10, 2017 Elbit Systems has received a $40 million contract for the advanced C4ISR electronic warfare and communications system for the Brazilian marine corps, the company announced on Wednesday. ... more 
Genereal Dynamics stages successful test of military 4G network(UPI) May 10, 2017 General Dynamics Mission Systems has successfully streamed video more than 62 miles between tactical antennas as part of the Marine Corp-backed Ship-to-Shore Maneuver, Exploration, and Experimentation exercise on April 20. ... more  
Microsoft CEO: tech sector needs to prevent '1984' futureSeattle (AFP) May 10, 2017 Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Wednesday tech developers have a responsibility to prevent a dystopian "1984" future as the US technology titan unveiled a fresh initiative to bring artificial intelligence into the mainstream. ... more  
Turkey slams US rapid arming Syrian Kurds in IS fightIstanbul (AFP) May 10, 2017 Turkey on Wednesday slammed as unacceptable a US plan to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists, but the militia applauded a "historic" move that would speed up the defeat of Islamic State (IS) extremists. ... more 
NATO mulls sending thousands more troops to AfghanistanLondon (AFP) May 10, 2017 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that military chiefs wanted a few thousand more troops from the alliance to be deployed in Afghanistan to help combat Islamist insurgents. ... more |
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NASA team pursues blobs and bubbles with new PetitSat missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 10, 2017 Figuring out how plasma bubbles and blobs affect one another and ultimately the transmission of communications, GPS, and radar signals in Earth's ionosphere will be the job of a recently selected Cu ... more  
Hughes maintains leading position in VSAT marketGermantown MD (SPX) May 10, 2017 Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), was again confirmed as the leading global provider in both enterprise and consumer sectors of the Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite communications i ... more 
EU tells US: Funding UN more important than defense spendingUnited Nations, United States (AFP) May 9, 2017 European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday urged the United States to maintain funding for UN agencies, saying relief work was sometimes more important for peace than defense spending. ... more 
S. Korea's Moon sworn in, says willing to go to NorthSeoul (AFP) May 10, 2017 South Korea's new president was sworn in on Wednesday, just a day after a landslide election victory, and immediately declared his willingness to visit Pyongyang amid high tensions with the nuclear-armed North. ... more |
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  Moscow (Sputnik) May 08, 2017 
With its state-of-art heavy liquid-propelled RS-28 Sarmat ICBM the Russian military has obviously surpassed their US counterparts, Russian military expert Alexei Leonkov told Radio Sputnik, adding that the cutting-edge weaponry is due to enter into service in 2018.
Russia is 10-15 years ahead of the US with its cutting-edge heavy liquid-propelled RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic mis ... more Beijing (AFP) May 2, 2017China demands halt to US missile shield in S.Korea Washington (AFP) May 2, 2017THAAD missile defense system now operational in S. Korea Seoul (AFP) April 28, 2017Seoul rejects Trump demand it pays for missile system |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 9, 2017 
China has recently tested a new type of guided missile in a northeastern sea near the Korean peninsula, the defence ministry said Tuesday, hours after South Korean elections held amid regional tensions.
The test in the Bohai Sea was conducted to "raise the operational capability of the armed forces and effectively respond to threats to national security," the ministry said in a brief stateme ... more Moscow (Sputnik) May 08, 2017Purchase of S-400 From Russia 'Might Signal Turkey's Estrangement From NATO'  Tokyo (AFP) April 29, 2017Tokyo subway halt for 10 minutes over NKorea scare  Washington (UPI) Apr 28, 2017Sweden orders additional anti-ship missiles from Saab |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2017 
Lockheed Martin is touting its newest variant of the Indago quadrotor drone for sensitive intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Indago 3's Enhanced ISR capability comes with the addition of TrellisWare Technologies MANET software, Lockheed Martin said.
"Indago 3 gives our customers a quiet, durable, long-range system to complete sensitive operations with a small ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 08, 2017US Air Force Space Shuttle X-37B Finally Unmasked  Kennedy Space Center FL (Sputnik) May 08, 2017Newest Secret US Spacecraft Returns to Earth After Over 700 Days in Space  Washington (AFP) May 9, 2017US drone back on Earth after nearly two years in space |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2017  U.S. Air Force F-15Cs have demonstrated the ability to securely communicate with other aircraft and ground stations using a Boeing-developed networking system, the company announced Monday.
The sharing of information took place during recent test flights at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., using Talon HATE airborne pods.
The pods enabled the F-15C pilots to share information through ... more (UPI) May 10, 2017Elbit Systems receives Brazilian contract for C4ISR (UPI) May 10, 2017Genereal Dynamics stages successful test of military 4G network  Washington DC (UPI) May 8, 2017Israel orders satellite-on-the-go for military vehicles |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2017 
The German military is upgrading 104 Leopard 2 tanks that have been brought out of storage, government officials said Tuesday.
The program will be carried out by the manufacturer Krauss-Maffel Wegmann and is expected to cost $832.7 million.
"The geopolitical developments of the past years have emphasized to us the importance of tank technology for our defense capabilities," the G ... more Washington (UPI) May 4, 2017Engility to continue support for DITRA  Washington (UPI) May 4, 2017Cubic Global Defense to provide training support services for British army  Washington (UPI) May 3, 2017Rheinmetall picks armaments services supplier Australian vehicle contract |
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 The Hague (AFP) April 21, 2017 
A Dutch court on Friday sentenced a businessman to 19 years in prison for arms trafficking and aiding war crimes in Liberia and Guinea by armed forces of ex-Liberian leader Charles Taylor.
Guus Kouwenhoven, 74, was found guilty of delivering weapons to Taylor's regime between 2000 and 2003 in return for preferential treatment and lucrative contracts for his logging business, in violation of ... more Ottawa (AFP) April 13, 2017Canada moves to join treaty curbing foreign arms sales New Delhi (AFP) April 7, 2017India inks weapons deal worth nearly $2 bn with Israel  Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017U.S. lawmakers push for Pentagon reforms |
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 Washington (UPI) May 5, 2017 
A large military exercise involving more than 6000 personnel is running from May 1 to May 12 under the name Exercise Northern Edge.
The operation will cover a number of possible scenarios, including Pacific ocean contingencies, and foreign troops will participate in the exercise, the U.S Marine Corps announced on Friday.
"Exercises like Northern Edge allow us to work together, ta ... more United Nations, United States (AFP) May 8, 2017France's Macron seen as UN ally  Beijing (AFP) May 8, 2017China rebuffs UN criticism of lawyer's detention  Manila (AFP) May 8, 2017Philippines, US launch scaled-down military exercises |
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 Upton, NY (SPX) May 02, 2017 
The ability to pattern materials at ever-smaller sizes - using electron-beam lithography (EBL), in which an electron-sensitive material is exposed to a focused beam of electrons, as a primary method - is driving advances in nanotechnology. When the feature size of materials is reduced from the macroscale to the nanoscale, individual atoms and molecules can be manipulated to dramatically alter ma ... more Osaka, Japan (SPX) May 04, 2017X-ray microscope optics resolve 50-nm features while eliminating chromatic aberrations  Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 27, 2017Self-assembled nanostructures can be selectively controlled  Lund, Sweden (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Nanotubes that build themselves |
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 Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) May 7, 2017 
Suicide attackers from the Islamic State group killed two Kurdish peshmerga forces Sunday in an operation against a base in northern Iraq, officers said.
"Two members of the peshmerga were killed and five wounded in a suicide attack on K1 base," a major general in the peshmerga told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He said five armed men wearing suicide belts attacked the base, where he sa ... more Mosul, Iraq (AFP) May 9, 2017Iraq forces advance in west Mosul  Baghdad (AFP) May 9, 2017Anti-corruption activists kidnapped in Baghdad; West Mosul battles on  Qaraqosh, Iraq (AFP) May 6, 2017In ruins of Iraq Christian town, fires a sign of rebirth |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 08, 2017 
Russia will have upgraded its Strategic Missile Forces with 5th-generation devices by 2027. All missile divisions of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) will be rearmed with 5th-generation ballistic missile systems by 2027, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
"The development and adoption of a new missile system with a heavy missile, as well as new systems with missiles of a lig ... more Washington (AFP) May 3, 2017US tests intercontinental ballistic missile  Seoul (AFP) May 9, 2017South Koreans vote in historic election  Tehran (AFP) May 6, 2017Iran army criticises Rouhani's missile comments |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 9, 2017 
The dollar extended gains in Asian trade Tuesday as investors swung their attention to expectations of another US interest rate hike next month, but equities struggled under the weight of profit-taking following the previous day's rally.
Regional markets surged Monday, with Tokyo and Seoul leading the way, following centrist Emmanuel Macron's victory in France's presidential election and las ... more Shanghai (AFP) May 7, 2017Sister of Trump senior adviser solicits Chinese investment  Beijing (AFP) May 8, 2017China's April exports rise but slow from March  Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2017China factory gate inflation slows as commodity prices drop |
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 Paris (AFP) May 7, 2017 
Marine Le Pen took her crushing defeat in France's presidential election with trademark combativeness, saying her "historic" score confirmed her party's status as France's "biggest opposition force".
The 48-year-old anti-EU and anti-immigration "candidate of the people" scored between 33.9 and 35 percent of the vote, projections showed - double her father Jean-Marie Le Pen's score in the 20 ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2017New fiber-based sensor could quickly detect structural problems in bridges and dams  Beijing (AFP) May 6, 201720 sentenced to prison for deadly 2015 China landslide  Oxford UK (SPX) May 08, 2017Affluent countries contribute less to wildlife conservation than the rest of the world |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 11, 2017 
Chinese students will live in a laboratory simulating a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon.
Four postgraduate students from the capital's astronautics research university Beihang entered the 160-square-metre (1,720-square-foot) cabin - dubbed the "Yuegong-1", or "Lunar Palace" - on Wednesday, the official Xinhu ... more Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2017China to conduct several manned space flights around 2020  Beijing (Sputnik) May 01, 2017Reach for the Stars: China Plans to Ramp Up Space Flight Activity  Beijing (XNA) Apr 28, 2017China's cargo spacecraft completes in-orbit refueling |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 8, 2017 
A leading Chinese human rights lawyer went on trial Monday for inciting subversion, in a case which sparked an international outcry after claims he was tortured.
Xie Yang, who had worked on numerous cases considered politically sensitive by China's ruling Communist Party, was among hundreds of legal staff and activists detained in summer 2015.
The "709 crackdown" - named after the date ... more Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2017China lawyer's wife seeks US asylum after brazen escape  Beijing (AFP) May 9, 2017China wants its anthem sung, but maybe not at parties Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2017China frees human rights lawyer on bail: Amnesty |
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 Copenhagen (AFP) May 9, 2017 
The United States and Turkey will work together as operations continue to retake the Islamic State group's Syria bastion of Raqa, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Tuesday.
His remarks come weeks after Turkey launched air strikes against a key US-backed Kurdish militia ground force, drawing an angry response from Washington.
"Our intent is to work with the Turks, alongside one another to ... more Copenhagen (AFP) May 9, 2017Anti-IS coalition meets in Denmark to assess campaign  Kano, Nigeria (AFP) May 4, 2017Boko Haram's Shekau rejects air strike injury claims Kano, Nigeria (AFP) May 3, 2017Boko Haram leader Shekau 'injured in air strike' |
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 Washington (AFP) April 8, 2017  A sci-fi staple for decades, laser weapons are finally becoming reality in the US military, albeit with capabilities a little less dramatic than at the movies.
Lightsabers - the favored weapon of the Jedi in "Star Wars" films - will remain in the fictional realm for now, but after decades of development, laser weapons are now here and are being deployed on military vehicles and planes.
... more Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2017Researchers create Star Wars 'superlaser' in the lab  Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017German scientists focus radiation of 10,000 suns with new light array  Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017Scientists find out where laser energy goes when a beam is fired into plasma |
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