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  Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said Wednesday it had won a $777 million (680 million euro) order from India to buy defence systems for its navy. The deal with India's state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited to supply the marine version of the Barak 8 air and missile defence system for seven more warships follows a $630 million (551 million euro) order placed last year. State-owned IAI, Israel's largest defence firm, said worldwide sales of the Barak 8 system now totalled more than $6 billion. ... read more |
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Putin warns of a new 'arms race' with AmericaMoscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday of a new arms race if America pulls out of weapons treaties, and said Russia would respond "in kind" to any new US missiles placed on European soil. ... more 
NATO does not want new nuclear arms race: alliance chiefBrussels (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday he did not see the alliance's member states deploying more nuclear weapons in Europe in response to a new Russian missile programme. ... more 
GenDyn contracted for U.S., U.K. ballistic missile submarine supportWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 General Dynamics Mission Systems has received a $19 million contract to service U.S. and British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarines. ... more  
Former US Europe commander warns of likely 'war with China'Warsaw (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 The former commander of US Army forces in Europe warned on Wednesday of a "very strong likelihood" of an armed conflict between his country and China in the Pacific. ... more |
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IAI receives $777 million contract from Indian navy for Barak 8 systemsWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 Israel Aerospace Industries announced Wednesday it has received a $777 million contract to supply long range surface-to-air missile defense systems for seven ships in the Indian navy. ... more  
General Atomics awarded $193M for Gray Eagle logisticsWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems received a $193 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to perform logistics services on the Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system, or drone. ... more  
Taxi tests for Paul Allen's Stratolaunch successfully reach 90 mphWashington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 Stratolaunch, one of the world's largest aircraft, which is intended to launch payloads rockets into Earth's orbit, successfully carried out taxi tests on a runway in the Mojave Desert just days bef ... more  
Orbit Logic's scheduling software selected for NASA satellite servicing missionGreenbelt, MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Orbit Logic reports NASA has selected the company's STK Scheduler software for the Restore-L technology demonstration mission. During its mission, the Restore-L spacecraft will demonstrate the techn ... more  
China's space programs open up to worldBeijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while careful ... more |
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Don't choke on your coffee: US Air Force in hot water over $1,220 mugsWashington (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 The US Air Force has found itself in a brewing scandal after it emerged that the service has been spending more than $1,000 to replace high tech coffee cups with fragile handles. ... more  |
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Apple chief pushes for US privacy law to stop 'weaponizing' dataBrussels (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday said the United States needed a federal privacy law because personal information was being "weaponized" by companies against internet users to boost profits. ... more  
'It is a pity' - regret as Chinese golfers skip event in TaiwanTaoyuan, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 A major sponsor expressed regret on Wednesday after China's Feng Shanshan and Liu Yu withdrew from this week's LPGA women's golf tournament in Taiwan, a move that will raise speculation that sport has again become a battleground between the two sides. ... more  
GE showcases marine gas turbine at Euronaval conferenceWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 GE's Marine Solutions displayed its aeroderivative marine gas turbine Wednesday at the Euronaval 2018 industry exhibition in Paris. ... more  
Inside China's internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooksBeijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 On state television, the vocational education centre in China's far west looked like a modern school where happy students studied Mandarin, brushed up their job skills, and pursued hobbies such as sports and folk dance. ... more  
Iraq parliament okays 14 ministers for new cabinetBaghdad (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 The Iraqi parliament approved 14 new cabinet ministers Thursday proposed by prime minister-designate Adel Abdel Mahdi, even as key portfolios such as defence and interior affairs remained unassigned, an official said. ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said Wednesday it had won a $777 million (680 million euro) order from India to buy defence systems for its navy.
The deal with India's state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited to supply the marine version of the Barak 8 air and missile defence system for seven more warships follows a $630 million (551 million euro) order placed last year.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 
Raytheon-produced surface-to-air missiles beat back two aerial threats at sea during a testing exercise by the Republic of Korea's navy.
South Korea's navy fired three SM-2 Block IIIB missiles to destroy simulated aerial threats, Raytheon announced on Wednesday. South Korea also successfully tested advanced semi-active radar seeker technology in two Block IIIA missiles
The SM-2 m ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 
The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has passed its 400-day mark, inching its way toward setting a new flight duration record for the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mission.
The spacecraft, the fifth of its kind, was initially rocketed into orbit on September 7, 2017, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, according to Space.com. All previous OTV missions established new flight records, wit ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 
Navistar Defense has been awarded a $19.7 million modification to an existing contract with the U.S. Army to provide technical support for in-production and out-of-production of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, MaxxPro family of vehicles.
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, runs through March 2020, with locations and funding to be determined with ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 
NATO's biggest military exercises since the end of the Cold War, dubbed Trident Juncture 18, take place in Norway from October 25 to November 7 in what will be a massive display of strength.
- Show of force -
Around 50,000 troops from 31 countries - NATO's 29 member states plus Sweden and Finland - will take part in the manoeuvres organised in central Norway for the land exercises, in ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
Spain's Socialist prime minister defended Wednesday arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia despite an outcry over the murder of a Saudi journalist, saying it was in the country's "interests" to keep selling military hardware to the kingdom.
"If you ask me where I stand today, it is in the defence of the interests of Spain, of jobs in strategic sectors in areas badly affected by the drama that is un ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
Japan's Shinzo Abe is due to arrive in China Thursday, the first visit to the Asian giant by a Japanese prime minister since relations between the two countries soured six years ago over a territorial row.
Abe and Chinese president Xi Jinping are expected to discuss how to improve economic cooperation as the world's second and third largest economies prepare to weather a US onslaught of trad ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
An international team led by researchers from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), and Soochow University (Suzhou, China) discover squeezed light ('nanolight') in the nanoscale that propagates only in specific directions along thin slabs of molybdenum trioxide - a natural anisotropic 2D material -. Besides its uniq ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
The Iraqi parliament approved 14 new cabinet ministers Thursday proposed by prime minister-designate Adel Abdel Mahdi, even as key portfolios such as defence and interior affairs remained unassigned, an official said.
A total of 220 lawmakers out of 329 elected in May to a deeply divided parliament, approved Abdel Mahdi's 14 picks, including for the ministries of foreign affairs, finances, a ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2018  NORAD and U.S. Northern Command will partner with the Canadian Joint Operations Command to conduct their 13th annual homeland defense exercise, Vigilant Shield 19, from their home bases at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado on Oct. 24-28, 2018.
The rapid response event will deploy more than 5,500 personnel across air, land, maritime, space and cyber to test and grade the ability of NOR ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 
China's top economic supremo on Friday led a coordinated drive by top financial officials to shore up confidence in the country's stock markets and economy, in a rare expression of concern over what one called "abnormal" share price falls.
The intervention by Vice Premier Liu He and heads of the central bank and securities and banking regulators comes amid a bruising stock downturn and the ... more |
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 Valletta (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 
Migrants rescued at sea by a merchant vessel are being taken to Malta after two days in limbo following Italy's refusal to accept them, the Maltese armed forces said Wednesday.
The Just Fitz III plucked 44 migrants from a rickety wooden boat late Monday after they ran into difficulty during the perilous crossing from North Africa.
The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, which had been heade ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
The world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China opened to traffic Wednesday, with excited travellers making their first journeys along what has been described as a politically-driven and costly white elephant.
Passengers and tour groups gathered at Hong Kong's cross-border coach terminus and bus operators gave away Chinese pastries and roasted meat to passengers ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
Sri Lankan police arrested and charged a senior naval officer Wednesday for the abduction and murder of two Tamil businessmen during the final stages of the island's brutal civil war.
Lieutenant Commander K. A. Dayananda was taken before a magistrate and remanded in custody over the double murder, which investigators believe took place in January 2009.
Police said the victims, both from ... 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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