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  Washington (UPI) Dec 24, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3, or Patriot PAC-3, missiles for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is worth a total of $3.3 billion for production of the missiles, with associated ground support equipment and initial spares of both PAC-3 missiles and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors. Production on the contract will occur in Alabama, Ark ... read more |
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Erdogan invites Trump to Turkey amid Syria pulloutAnkara (AFP) Dec 25, 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent more troops to Syria's border on Monday ahead of an imminent US withdrawal, as the White House announced he had invited Donald Trump to Ankara. ... more  
General Atomics, Raytheon contracted for Reaper drone supportWashington (UPI) Dec 24, 2018 General Atomics and Raytheon have each been awarded contracts for support of the MQ-9 Reaper, one for sensors and the other for overall program support, that come to a total of more than $350 million. ... more  
Turkey says US missile deal does not affect S-400 purchase from RussiaAnkara (AFP) Dec 24, 2018 Ankara's purchase of US missiles worth $3.5 billion will not affect a deal to acquire rival S-400 missiles from Russia, the Turkish presidential spokesman said Monday. ... more  
China 'resolutely opposes' demands for release of detained CanadiansBeijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2018 China on Monday lashed out at Canada and the US for demanding the release of detained Canadians and accused Western countries of double standards. ... more |
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Kids in Iraq camps dream big, but can't enroll in schoolHammam Al-Alil 2 Displacement Camp, Iraq (AFP) Dec 23, 2018 Maareb has big dreams, but she may never get to realise them. Every day, when her friends attend class in the Iraqi displacement camp they call home, she stays behind. ... more  
Turkey sends troops to Syria border as US prepares for pullout talksAnkara (AFP) Dec 24, 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent more troops to Syria's border on Monday ahead of an imminent US withdrawal, threatening a Kurdish militia there as a US delegation prepared for talks on the pullout. ... more  
Order signed for US military's controversial Syria exitWashington (AFP) Dec 24, 2018 The US military has confirmed that the order to withdraw American troops from Syria had been signed, after President Donald Trump held talks with his Turkish counterpart to negotiate a pullout that has stunned Washignton's allies. ... more 
Muslim Pakistan says outcry over China detention camps 'sensationalised'Islamabad (AFP) Dec 20, 2018 Pakistan on Thursday defended its close ally China against a growing outcry over Muslims who are being detained by Chinese authorities, saying the issue was being "sensationalised" by foreign media. ... more 
Kurds: one stateless people across four countriesParis (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 The Kurds, a non-Arab ethnic group, number between 25 and 35 million people who are spread across four countries but without a state of their own. ... more |
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Erdogan vows to clear Syria of Kurd militia, ISIstanbul (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday vowed to drive out a US-backed Kurdish militia and jihadists from Syria as Kurdish forces there warned that any attack by Ankara could seriously undermine the fight against the Islamic State. ... more  |
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Coalition strikes kill 27 in eastern Syria: monitorBeirut (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Air strikes by the US-led coalition killed 13 jihadist fighters and 14 of their relatives Friday in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. ... more 
Papua governor asks Indonesia to withdraw troopsJakarta (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 The governor of Papua has requested that Indonesia call off the search for separatist rebels accused of killing at least 16 construction workers in a remote part of the province this month. ... more 
Israeli army says destroys Hezbollah tunnel from LebanonJerusalem (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 The Israeli army said Friday it has blown up a cross-border tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon, the first of four it has uncovered - and pledged to destroy - in recent weeks. ... more  
Military Santa tracker live despite US government shutdownWashington (AFP) Dec 25, 2018 The US government shutdown may have temporarily dimmed Washington's National Christmas Tree but never fear, Santa Claus still came to town - with the military tracking his path across the globe. ... more  
Airbus-built French military Earth observation satellite launchedKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 24, 2018 The first of the CSO (Composante spatiale optique) Earth observation satellites for the French Armed Forces, has been successfully launched on a Soyuz launcher from the Kourou European Spaceport in ... more |
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 Moorestown NJ (SPX) Dec 21, 2018 
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $585 million contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to design, develop and deliver its Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii (HDR-H) in Oahu, Hawaii.
The HDR-H radar will provide autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discrimination to optimize the defensive capability of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) and counter evolving thre ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2018 
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $46.5 million contract modification to Orbital Sciences Corporation, picking up an option for the company to produce 15 Lot 13 GQM-163A Coyote supersonic sea skimming target base vehicles.
One of those vehicles will be sent to the Army for use testing and evaluating the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, Limited User Test target system.
The Coy ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 24, 2018 
General Atomics and Raytheon have each been awarded contracts for support of the MQ-9 Reaper, one for sensors and the other for overall program support, that come to a total of more than $350 million.
The contracts, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, cover separate areas of sustainment for the unmanned aerial system used for surveillance and support of ground troops, though ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 21, 2018  Researchers in Italy have demonstrated the feasibility of quantum communications between high-orbiting global navigation satellites and a ground station, with an exchange at the single photon level over a distance of 20,000km.
The milestone experiment proves the feasibility of secure quantum communications on a global scale, using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). It is report ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2018  BAE Systems and General Dynamics have received contracts that total more than $700 million to produce 12 prototypes of the Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle.
The contracts, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, cover middle tier acquisition and rapid prototyping effort, with plans and options for initial production. The MPF will fall under a Rapid Prototyping contracting arra ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 
Canada is looking into ways to cancel a giant 2014 weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday, as criticism mounts over the kingdom's role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Riyadh-led war in Yemen.
Trudeau had earlier said that it would be "extremely difficult" to withdraw from the contract, signed by the previous conservative administration, ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Japan's defence budget will swell to a record $47 billion for the next fiscal year, the government said Friday, as Tokyo beefs up its missile defence and deploys stealth jets in a bid to counter China.
The defence spending was part of a $912-billion national budget for the fiscal year starting in April 2019, approved by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet.
The government decided to set a ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
Thanks in part to their distinct electronic, optical and chemical properties, nanomaterials are utilized in an array of diverse applications from chemical production to medicine and light-emitting devices.
But when introducing another metal in their structure, also known as "doping," researchers are unsure which position the metal will occupy and how it will affect the overall stability of ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2018  A former security guard for the US firm Blackwater was found guilty of murder on Wednesday for his role in a notorious massacre of unarmed civilians in downtown Baghdad in 2007.
Nicholas Slatten, 35, was convicted of first-degree murder by a federal jury in US District Court in Washington after five days of deliberations.
Slatten was convicted of killing Ahmed Haithem Ahmed Al Rubia'y, 1 ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Japan rebuked South Korea Friday after claiming one of the country's warships had locked its weapons targeting system onto a Japanese military aircraft.
South Korea's KDX-1 class destroyer locked its fire control radar on a Japanese P-1 patrol plane on Thursday off Noto peninsula in the Sea of Japan that divides the two countries, Tokyo's defence ministry said.
"It was an extremely dange ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Siemens boss Joe Kaeser on Friday lashed out at the practices used by Chinese investors to exercise total control over foreign firms, as disquiet grows about China's appetite for German technology and know-how.
The recent ousting of robotics maker Kuka's chief executive Till Reuter two years after the prestigious German firm was taken over by Chinese group Midea, was just the latest example, ... more |
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 Narusawa , Japan (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
From his hut on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest", Kyochi Watanabe blasts John Lennon's "Imagine" into the night - hoping that music can lift people from their despair before it's too late.
The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the vast forest's morbid reputation by reaching out to those who come to end their lives.
But now he fears his work is being ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 24, 2018 
China on 22 December successfully launched the first satellite of its Hongyun project, which seeks to create a network of communication satellites on the low Earth orbit in order to provide stable internet connection to the country's remote regions, the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) said.
The satellite was launched atop the Long March-11 rocket at 07: ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2018 
China on Monday lashed out at Canada and the US for demanding the release of detained Canadians and accused Western countries of double standards.
"The Chinese side expressed strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the statements made by Canada and the US," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing.
Beijing this month detained two Cana ... more |
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 Hawija, Iraq (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
Iraqi authorities said they uncovered a new mass grave containing the remains of dozens of people in an area of northern Kirkuk province once held by the Islamic State group.
Security forces have discovered dozens of mass graves since they drove out IS in 2017 after three years of occupation of swathes of northern and western Iraq.
The United Nations said in November that more than 200 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2018 
The U.S. Army is contracting Radiance Technologies for high energy laser lethality research, assessment and support in the amount of $28.2 million.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and is expected to be completed by November 2023.
It falls under a small business contract under acquisition rules, though R ... more |
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