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  Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 A top Pentagon official cautioned India on Wednesday that there are no guarantees for a special waiver from US sanctions if it buys new weapons platforms from Russia. Washington is alarmed at the prospect of India, an increasingly important US military ally and the world's top defense importer, buying new systems from Russia, including its S-400 long-range, surface-to-air missile system. Under current US rules against Russia, third countries could face sanctions if they transact with Russian def ... read more |
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Moscow blocks UN sanctions on Russian entities over NKorea banUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 Russia has blocked a US request that UN sanctions be slapped on two Russian shipping companies and six of their ships over oil shipments to North Korea, diplomatic sources said Wednesday. ... more 
S. Korea's Moon replaces defence chief in cabinet reshuffleSeoul (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday replaced his defence chief and four other ministers in a cabinet reshuffle after falling approval ratings in recent weeks. ... more 
Mattis says 'no decision' on future S. Korea drillsWashington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insisted Wednesday that "no decisions" had been made about suspending additional military exercises with South Korea, one day after he suggested the moratorium on large drills had ended. ... more 
Iran tells UN court 'time running out' under US sanctionsThe Hague (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 Iran told the UN's top court Wednesday that "time is running out" for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions. ... more |
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Japan protests as reporter blocked from covering China FMTokyo (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 Japan has lodged a protest with China about freedom of speech after Beijing blocked a Japanese reporter from covering a meeting between top diplomats from the two countries. ... more  
F-35C tests integration with USS Abraham LincolnWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 Navy F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters has been integrated into carrier air wing training flight operations for the first time with aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 7 on the USS Abraham Lincoln. ... more 
United Technologies contracted for F-35 engine production toolingWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 United Technologies Pratt & Whitney Military Engines has received a $14.5 million for a contract on Lot 11 F-35 Lightning II F-135 engine production tooling. ... more  
Saudi-led coalition rejects UN's Yemen 'war crimes' reportRiyadh (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 A Saudi-led coalition battling in Yemen on Wednesday dismissed as inaccurate a report by UN investigators that highlighted possible war crimes in the conflict-torn country including deadly air strikes by the alliance. ... more 
Court orders arrest of Sri Lanka's top military officerColombo (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 A court Wednesday ordered the arrest of Sri Lanka's top military officer in connection with the abduction and murder of 11 people during the island's civil war. ... more |
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US lawmakers call for sanctions over Xinjiang campsWashington (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 US lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump's administration to slap sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the internment of a Muslim minority in the country's far-west Xinjiang region, Florida senator Marco Rubio announced. ... more  |
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Iraqi court clears German-Turkish woman of IS linksBaghdad (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 An Iraqi judge on Wednesday cleared a German-Turkish woman of having ties to the Islamic State group, a judicial source said, more than a year after she was detained. ... more 
Private army in Afghanistan 'not a wise idea': MattisWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday downplayed the idea of sending private military contractors to Afghanistan to replace American forces. ... more  
Car bomb kills 11 in west Iraq after IS chief jihad callRamadi, Iraq (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people in Iraq on Wednesday in an attack that underscored the threat still posed by the Islamic State group despite a string of defeats. ... more 
US ends suspension of military drills, amid NKorea tensionsWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 The United States will end its suspension of military drills on the Korean peninsula, a move that had been decided as a "good faith" measure following President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Pentagon said Tuesday. ... more 
US toughens stance as N. Korea talks stumbleWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 With US-South Korean military drills back on the table and the cancelation of a top-level summit in Pyongyang, Washington is toughening its stance as it negotiates with North Korea. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 
PeopleTec has received a $33.6 million contract with a two-year value of $9 million for engineering advising services for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System.
The contract covers engineering for international partners and the Ballistic Missile Defense System to defend against ballistic missile threats. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., Fort Belvoir, Va., and Tel Aviv, Is ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 
Israel is working on a new missile system capable of hitting targets anywhere in the Middle East, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday.
State-owned arms manufacturer Israel Military Industries (IMI) would deliver "within a few years" an advanced integrated system "allowing precise hits by remote launching", he said in a statement.
Lieberman added that the contract with IMI w ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Poway, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2020. The program falls under a foreign military sale to France.
The MQ-9 SkyGuardian, also known as ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 
One of the US Defense Department's top research agencies has been testing a new communication network that one researcher described as "basically fiber optic communications without the fiber."
In early 2017, the DoD awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) $45 million to develop a system of sensors and hardware that would enable soldiers to communicate even if the enem ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency received its first order of precision-guided munitions acquired through a NATO program involving 11 members and partners.
The PGMs are manufactured in the United States and will be delivered to Belgium and Denmark in the next several weeks, NATO announced on Wednesday. The value of the initial order is $20 million.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
A top Pentagon official cautioned India on Wednesday that there are no guarantees for a special waiver from US sanctions if it buys new weapons platforms from Russia.
Washington is alarmed at the prospect of India, an increasingly important US military ally and the world's top defense importer, buying new systems from Russia, including its S-400 long-range, surface-to-air missile system.
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 Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 
Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since at least the 1980s, with around 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence minister said Tuesday.
The Vostok-2018 exercises will be carried out from September 11 to 15 in the country's east with the participation of China and Mongolia.
"This will be something of a repeat of Zapad-81, but in some senses even bigger," Sergei Shoi ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 
First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod.
Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and his team used molecular models to demonstrate their theory that weak van der Waals forces between the inner surface of the nanotube and the water molecules are strong ... more |
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 Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said.
The 9 am (0600 GMT) bombing at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Al-Qaim also wounded 16 people - 11 civilians and five security personnel, police Captain Mahmud Jassem told AFP.
The town, on the Syrian border some 340 kilometre ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
Iran told the UN's top court Wednesday that "time is running out" for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions.
Iran was making its closing arguments in a challenge to the sanctions at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
US President Donald Trump reimposed the sanctions after pulling out of a multilateral 2015 accord in May.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
U.S. President Trump is admired for fulfilling campaign promises, but some of those actions are harming his own ambitions on energy, a trade group said.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to "use every tool under American and international law to end these (trade) abuses." Nearly two years into his term, he's made good on that pledge by targeting North American, European and Chinese ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
Rome will on Thursday ask the European Union to rotate the ports where migrants rescued at sea disembark, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta said, with France and Spain expected to top the list.
Trenta will put the plan to her European counterparts during an informal meeting in Vienna.
"Tomorrow ... I will carry in the name of the Italian government a proposal to modify the rules of the ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Engineers have successfully tested the propulsion system of China's planned space station lab capsules, a key step in its space station program.
Weighing 66 tonnes, the space station will comprise a core module and two lab capsules. The propulsion system will determine whether lab capsules can move in space.
Engineers designed 36 engines for the propulsion system with four to adjust ... more |
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 Edinburgh (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
Chinese author Yan Lianke, whose works are banned in his heavily censored homeland, has urged world leaders not to shy away from confronting China about its human rights record.
Yan, who offers frank portrayals of Chinese life prompting years of state censorship, said leaders flocking to China have become too focused on economic ties.
The 60-year-old novelist told AFP that Beijing needs ... more |
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 Tripoli (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 
The US military said it carried out an air strike Tuesday in Libya, killing an Islamic State member described by a source as a former local leader of the jihadist group.
The US Africa Command said it "conducted a precision airstrike near Bani Walid, Libya, on August 28, killing one ISIS-Libya terrorist," referring to the Islamic State group.
The strike around 170 kilometres (105 miles) s ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The U.S. Army awarded Dynetics, Lockheed Martin and its partners a $10 million contract to continue development for the next phase of the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) program, a 100-kilowatt class laser weapon system.
Laser weapons are ideally suited to address high volume, low cost threats because of their inexpensive cost per shot and deep magazine. Team Dyne ... more |
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