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  Washington (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 The bitter trade dispute between China and the US is increasingly spilling into the military domain, with a risky incident in the South China Sea highlighting the dangers of souring relations. In what the US Navy has called an "unsafe and unprofessional" encounter, a Chinese warship sailed within just 45 yards (41 meters) of a US destroyer Sunday as it passed by Chinese-claimed features in the South China Sea, forcing the American vessel to take evasive action. The close call capped days of tit- ... read more |
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S.Korean minister proposes US-N.Korea tradeoffWashington (AFP) Oct 4, 2018 An end to the Korean War in return for the verified dismantling of its major North Korean nuclear facility: South Korea's foreign minister on Wednesday proposed this tradeoff to unblock stalled negotiations between the United States and North Korea. ... more 
NATO demands answers on Russia missilesBrussels (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday demanded Moscow prove it is complying with a landmark Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty, as concerns grow over a new Russian missile system. ... more 
British minister slams 'pariah state' RussiaBrussels (AFP) Oct 4, 2018 Britain's defence minister on Thursday condemned Russia as a "pariah state" after London accused Kremlin spies of mounting a campaign of cyber attacks on civilian bodies around the world. ... more 
US, China look on as Putin seeks India arms dealsNew Delhi (AFP) Oct 4, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, likely irking the US, China and Pakistan in one fell swoop. ... more |
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Expanded Marine rotational force deploys to NorwayWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 About 700 Marines have deployed to Norway, the first deployment of a larger Marine Corps presence in the country following a request earlier this year. ... more 
NATO exercise to be biggest since Cold WarBrussels (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 NATO's Trident Juncture 18 exercise will draw in 45,000 troops, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday, unveiling what officials confirmed would be the alliance's biggest manoeuvres since the Cold War. ... more 
Mattis vows 'iron-clad' US support as NATO plans huge drillsParis (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday sought to reassure rattled European nations of America's "iron-clad" commitment to NATO, as the transatlantic alliance announced its biggest military exercises since the Cold War. ... more  
US to let NATO use its cyber defence skillsBrussels (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 The United States is expected to make its offensive cyber warfare capabilities available to NATO, officials said Wednesday, as the alliance seeks to strengthen its defences against Russian electronic attacks. ... more  
Raytheon receives contract for new AEGIS radarsWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 Raytheon has received a $22.7 million contract for engineering, travel costs and other services for AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar production. ... more |
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 Turkey, US troops train for joint patrols in Syria's Manbij  
Kazakh families torn apart in China's Xinjiang crackdownAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 When he looks back on his youth in China's far-west Xinjiang region, Akikat Kaliolla, an ethnic Kazakh, recalls the place's natural beauty and the big, colourful weddings typical of his majority-Muslim community. ... more  |
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US Defense Secretary warns of 'tough fight' to oust ISParis (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 The US-led military alliance battling the Islamic State group faces "a tough fight" to oust the jihadists from their last holdouts in Syria, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday. ... more  
Iraqi PM designate gets challenge of forming governmentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 Veteran Iraqi politician and now prime minister designate Adel Abdel Mahdi Wednesday began the tough task of forming the next government, seeking to overcome sharp differences and unite fractious political parties. ... more 
Kurdish moderate Barham Saleh elected Iraq presidentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 Moderate Kurdish candidate Barham Saleh swept to the post of president of Iraq Tuesday evening in a parliamentary vote pitting Kurdish heavyweights against each other for the first time following an ill-fated independence referendum. ... more  
NanoSat hyperspectral camera delivers data after one year of space weather and a solar stormHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Oct 02, 2018 VTT's hyperspectral imager continues to observe the earth on board the Aalto-1 nanosatellite. For hyperspectral imagers it is unique to reach such a small size and weight, and also to prove a capabi ... more  
Maxar's SSL selected by NASA to develop critical technologies for on-orbit servicingPalo Alto, CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2018 SSL, has been selected by NASA for two separate public-private partnerships to develop two vital "Tipping Point" spacecraft technologies. NASA's Tipping Point awards are designed to foster the devel ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2018 
Raytheon has received a $1.5 billion contract from the Department of Defense for foreign military sales of the Patriot Defense System to Poland.
Work on the contract, announced Tuesday by the Pentagon, will be performed in Andover, Mass., White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and Merrimack, N.H., with an estimated completion date of December 2022.
Fiscal 2018 foreign military sales fu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has received a $289.2 million contract modification for 24 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launchers and support.
The contract award, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, includes training, spare parts and product improvement upgrades. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, with an estimated completion date of July 2022.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 
General Atomics has received a $441.6 million contract for technical services for U.S. Army Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
Work locations and funding for the contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, will be based on each order, with an estimated completion date of September 2023.
The Gray Eagle is a derivative of the Predator unmanned aerial drone designed ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Oct 01, 2018 
In his remarks during this year's Air Force Association's Air, Space, and Cyber Conference in National Harber, Maryland, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein explained the importance of Multi-Domain Command and Control in executing the nation's next fight.
In this fight, Goldfein said, the Air Force must master MDC2 to empower commanders to dominate the air, space, and cyber dom ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has received an order for Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods in two foreign military sales for Bahrain and Taiwan.
The Royal Bahraini Air Force has ordered 19 Sniper ATPs for the F-16 Block 70 platform, and Taiwan has ordered 18 pods for the mid-life upgrades of their F-16 platform.
"Sniper ATP continues to be a must-have product on platforms worldwide for its superio ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 
The US House passed an $854 billion spending bill Wednesday that ramps up military funding but does not include President Donald Trump's cherished border wall, sending him the measure days before the government runs out of money.
The bipartisan measure, which passed 361-61, funds the department of defense and a handful of agencies, and includes a short-term extension of funding for other ope ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 
About 700 Marines have deployed to Norway, the first deployment of a larger Marine Corps presence in the country following a request earlier this year.
The U.S. Marine Corps announced the deployment on Tuesday, which Norway announced it was anticipating in August.
The expanded rotational presence in the country was marked by a transfer-of-authority ceremony in Setermoen, Norway. ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
Researchers in Japan have found a way to create innovative materials by blending metals with precision control. Their approach, based on a concept called atom hybridization[1], opens up an unexplored area of chemistry that could lead to the development of advanced functional materials.
Multimetallic clusters - typically composed of three or more metals - are garnering attention as they exh ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Oct 3, 2018  Veteran Iraqi politician and now prime minister designate Adel Abdel Mahdi Wednesday began the tough task of forming the next government, seeking to overcome sharp differences and unite fractious political parties.
In a surprise move late Tuesday, new President Barham Saleh handed Abdel Mahdi - seen as an independent - the difficult responsibility only hours after being elected.
It com ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 03, 2018  The Russian Aerospace Forces have tracked over 40 launches of the country's and foreign space rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) since the beginning of 2018, an infographic published by the Russian Armed Forces' official newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda showed on Friday.
According to the document, since the beginning of the year, the Russian Aerospace Forces have monitored 14 ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 
Tehran welcomed on Wednesday a ruling by the UN's top court ordering Washington to suspend sanctions on humanitarian goods, as a "clear sign" that "Iran is in the right".
The ruling by the International Court of Justice "once again shows that the US government... is day by day becoming more isolated," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The US "must...change into a responsible and ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Oct 3, 2018  Morocco's navy rescued 37 of its citizens off the country's coast on Wednesday, as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the armed forces said.
The migrants were saved from their partially-inflated rubber dinghy, which was struggling in "unfavourable meteorological conditions", Morocco's military said in a statement.
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2018  Hundreds gathered in Hong Kong Friday to mark the fourth anniversary of the mass pro-democracy Umbrella Movement rallies as concerns grow that freedoms are disappearing under an assertive Beijing.
The subdued gathering comes days after the Hong Kong government banned a political party which promotes independence, calling it a threat to national security.
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 
The US-led military alliance battling the Islamic State group faces "a tough fight" to oust the jihadists from their last holdouts in Syria, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.
While the extremists have lost almost all of the self-declared "caliphate" they held across Iraq and Syria four years ago, Mattis warned that destroying the group completely was "still going to take some tim ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018 
Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing have received contract modifications for drone-mounted Low Power Laser Demonstrator system missile defense testing.
Lockheed Martin's contract has increased to a total value of $37.7 million, while General Atomics and Boeing's have been increased to $34 million and $29.4 million respectively, the Department of Defense announced on Friday.
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