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  Washington (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 The US plan to deploy new low-yield nuclear weapons is aimed at convincing Russia to respect existing agreements on limiting the weapons, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Tuesday. Mattis told a hearing in Congress that Moscow is violating the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty and Washington want to pressure it to get back in line. "As you know, we have an ongoing issue with Russia's violation of the INF. I want to make certain that our negotiators have something to negotiate with, that we ... read more |
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US does not rule out North Korea talks at OlympicsTokyo (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 US Vice-President Mike Pence refused to rule out meeting North Koreans attending the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, offering the faintest hope of a diplomatic breakthrough Tuesday. ... more  
Beijing holds successful missile defense testBeijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 China said Tuesday it successfully conducted a test of a ground-based missile defence system amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. ... more 
Iran president rules out negotiations over missilesTehran (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that negotiations on the country's missile programme were out of the question. ... more  
US power not in decline across Asia-Pacific: DunfordDarwin, Australia (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 US commitment to the Asia-Pacific remains unwavering even though rivals falsely depict its influence as waning, the country's top general said Tuesday. ... more |
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Reading the body's history of threat exposureWashington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Picture an intelligence officer in the field. She is trying to piece together a suspected threat, and has access to someone who may have a role in carrying it out. There may be traces of biological ... more 
China may be testing an Electromagnetic Railgun on naval shipMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2018 Pictures circulating on social media indicate that China's navy may have mounted an electromagnetic rail gun on a warship, a feat that has yet to be tested at sea. A photo of a huge gun barrel ... more  
The size of a cereal box: ESA's first satellite of 2018Paris (ESA) Feb 06, 2018 ESA's first mission of the year has been kicked off with the launch of the GomX-4B as the Agency's most advanced technology-tester yet, featuring a hyperspectral camera and tiny thrusters to manoeuv ... more  
Europe claims 100 million users for Galileo satnav systemParis (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday. ... more  
In-Orbit Servicing Market Opportunity Exceeds $3 BillionBoston MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 NSR's industry-first In-Orbit Servicing Markets (IoSM) report finds the nascent in-orbit servicing market poised for growth, and forecasts a total market of over $3B in the next 10 years. Life ... more |
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Air Force awards $400M contract to support Iraqi F-16sWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sallyport Global Holdings a contract for base operations and security for Iraq's F-16 program. ... more  |
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Three MV-22 Ospreys to receive upgradesWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 Bell-Boeing JPO was awarded a contract for upgrades to three MV-22 Osprey aircraft. ... more  
Iraqi Kurds say 4,000 jihadists detained including foreignersArbil, Iraq (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said Tuesday they had detained some 4,000 suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group, including foreigners, in recent years. ... more  
NASA conducts 2nd RS-25 engine hot fire test of 2018Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 NASA followed up the first RS-25 test of 2018 with a second hot fire of the Space Launch System (SLS) engine on Feb. 1 at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The full-duration, 365 ... more 
Saudi says Yemen rebel ballistic missile shot downRiyadh (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Saudi air defences intercepted a ballistic missile fired at the kingdom by Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels on Monday, state media reported. ... more  
Italy's Leonardo outlook sends shares into tailspinVergiate, Italy (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 Shares in Italy's Leonardo, one of world's top ten defence companies, went into free fall Tuesday after the company presented a recovery plan that worried analysts said was too vague for comfort. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for 10 additional Lot 10 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors for the U.S. Army.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $459.2 million under a modified fixed-price incentive-firm target contract for line item numbers.
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 White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Lockheed Martin's Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) missile successfully conducted a controlled flight test to demonstrate the interceptor's increased agility, and to validate the performance of its airframe and electronics - now common between MHTK's two configurations to drive affordability.
Friday's test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, was the first ever for MHTK's updated electron ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force has awarded L-3 Link Simulation & Training an $8.2 million contract for retrofits on the Predator Mission Aircrew Training System simulators.
The new award, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previous contract, which is now valued at $120,753,92.
The modified contract is for 40 retrofit communications kits and simulator seats ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
The technologies military organizations use in the field and at sea are only as effective as the communications infrastructure working in the background. As the Office of Naval Research (ONR) accelerates its development into innovative technologies for the transmission of mission-critical data, the need for state-of-the-art satellite connectivity increases.
This is where the powerful spot- ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2018 
Pictures circulating on social media indicate that China's navy may have mounted an electromagnetic rail gun on a warship, a feat that has yet to be tested at sea.
A photo of a huge gun barrel situated at the bow of a People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Type 072-II amphibious warfare ship popped up on military technology Twitter feeds on Wednesday.
According to a translation of a f ... more |
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 Vergiate, Italy (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 
Shares in Italy's Leonardo, one of world's top ten defence companies, went into free fall Tuesday after the company presented a recovery plan that worried analysts said was too vague for comfort.
The group, formerly known as Finmeccanica, changed its name last year for a fresh start after getting embroiled in corruption scandals.
Leonardo, Europe's largest maker of military hardware afte ... more |
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 Darwin, Australia (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  US commitment to the Asia-Pacific remains unwavering even though rivals falsely depict its influence as waning, the country's top general said Tuesday.
General Joe Dunford's remarks came weeks after the Pentagon unveiled a new national defence strategy labelling China as a "strategic competitor" that bullies its neighbours, and as America seeks to counter a narrative that President Donald T ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 2018 
Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a semiconductor chip. Together with colleagues from the University of Bochum, scientists from the University of Basel's Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute reported the findings in ... more |
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 Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said Tuesday they had detained some 4,000 suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group, including foreigners, in recent years.
They include around 1,000 jihadists who surrendered during the battle for Hawija, the last IS urban stronghold in Iraq until its fall late last year, Iraqi Kurdish official Dindar Zibari told reporters.
He said 350 people d ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018 
The Pentagon called for the United States to develop two new types of weapons in an update of its nuclear policy Friday.
The new policy - the first update of the Nuclear Posture Review since 2010 - pushes modernization of U.S. nuclear weapons, infrastructure and delivery systems. It overturns years of Obama-era policy that sought to reduce the size and power of the United States' nucl ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 1, 2018  Chinese President Xi Jinping told British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that their countries should take trade ties to "a new level" as London scouts the globe for fresh partnerships after its contentious EU exit.
Hounded by Brexit rows at home, May is seeking to deepen trade relations with the world's second largest economy as Britain prepares to leave the European Union next year. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
The radioactive cloud detected across Europe late last year may have been caused by an incident in Mayak nuclear facility, one of Russia's biggest, France's radioactivity surveillance institute said Tuesday.
"One possible hypothesis is that of a leak coming from an incident during an operation involving radioactive fuel cooled for around two years in Mayak complex, which is in the area betwe ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Feb 06, 2018 
China's first shared education satellite, Young Pioneer 1, carried by the Long March-2D rocket, was launched into space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday afternoon.
The 3-kg CubeSat (100 * 100 * 340mm), Young Pioneer 1, enters an orbit of 502 km above the Earth. The rocket also carried Zhangheng 1, an electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake data, and five other miniaturized ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  China acknowledged Tuesday that Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai was in custody under criminal law, brushing aside Stockholm's protests after he was seized under the eyes of Swedish diplomats last month.
Gui, 53, was arrested on a train to Beijing just over two weeks ago while being assisted by two Swedish diplomats - the second time he has disappeared in murky circumstances into Chinese c ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 
US recruits to the Islamic State group struggle more than their European counterparts, lacking support networks and field experience and being assigned to menial jobs, a report on American jihadists said Monday.
The study by the George Washington University Program on Extremism said that online social networks were more essential to Americans in reaching Syria and Iraq, as they often had lim ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018  Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $150 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The contract taps Lockheed Martin's Aculight Corp. to develop, manufacture and deliver two test units in fiscal 2020 - one uni ... more |
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