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  Moscow (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to deploy new missiles against Western capitals as he delivered a state of the nation address Wednesday aimed at boosting falling approval ratings. But while he took a combative tone with the West, he reached out to Russians with promises of improved living conditions. The longtime Russian leader warned Washington against deploying any new missiles in Europe following the collapse of a key Cold War-era treaty, saying Moscow would consider it a "seriou ... read more |
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On its maiden flight, India's SSLV will carry two defence satellitesChennai (IANS) Feb 21, 2019 The Indian space agency will fly two small defence satellites in July/August on its new rocket --now known as Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) - said a top official of Indian Space Research Org ... more 
NATO condemns 'unacceptable' Putin missile threatsBrussels (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 NATO on Wednesday condemned as "unacceptable" threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to deploy new missiles against Western capitals, as a key Cold War arms control treaty crumbles. ... more 
Kim must make 'meaningful' gesture to see sanctions ease: TrumpWashington (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un must make a "meaningful" gesture if he wants to see sanctions lifted, US President Donald Trump said Wednesday ahead of a second summit between the two men. ... more 
Putin warns new missiles could target 'decision-making centres'Moscow (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would have to deploy missiles targeting "decision-making centres" if Washington sends missiles to Europe. ... more |
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UAE signs major missile deals with US giant RaytheonAbu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 The United Arab Emirates announced Monday it had signed deals worth more than $1.6 billion for the purchase of Patriot missile launchers from US arms giant Raytheon, state media said. ... more  
New Zealand holding talks on Huawei security fears: PMWellington (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 New Zealand is in talks to minimise the security risks posed by using Huawei equipment in 5G infrastructure, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday - raising the prospect of compromise on an issue straining Wellington-Beijing relations. ... more 
British intelligence says Huawei risk manageable: FTLondon (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 British intelligence has concluded that security risks posed by using equipment made by Chinese telecom giant Huawei can be managed, the Financial Times reported on Monday. ... more 
Huawei's founder denies presence of 'backdoors' for spyingBeijing (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 The founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei has hit back at US efforts to blacklist the company and denied there are any "backdoors" in its technology to spy for Beijing. ... more 
Australia says 'state actor' hacked parties, parliamentSydney (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 Australia on Monday said a "sophisticated state actor" had hacked the country's main political parties and parliament, just weeks before a closely fought election. ... more |
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N. Korean envoy en route to Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim summit: YonhapSeoul (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 The North Korean special representative for the US arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, apparently en route to Vietnam to meet his Washington counterpart ahead of a second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said. ... more  |
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Draper awarded $191M for Trident missile guidance systemWashington (UPI) Feb 18, 2019 The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. a $191 million contract for the Trident II weapons system as the Pentagon upgrades its nuclear weapons arsenal. ... more 
Trump in 'no rush' to push N. Korea to denuclearizeWashington (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that while he hoped his next meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would yield much progress, he was also in "no rush" for results. ... more 
Trump signs 'Space Force' directiveWashington (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 President Donald Trump signed an order Tuesday outlining his vision for a new "Space Force" that could one day become a separate military branch on an equal footing to the Army and Navy. ... more  
Pentagon chief in spotlight over Trump's Syria plansWashington (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 The fate of Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was thrown into the spotlight Wednesday following media reports of a fraught discussion he had with senior US lawmakers over Syria. ... more  
Saudi agrees joint venture with French firm to boost navyAbu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 17, 2019 Saudi Arabia's state arms producer and a French government-majority firm signed an agreement Sunday on a joint venture to boost the kingdom's navy, amid calls to halt weapons sales to Riyadh over it role in Yemen. ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) Feb 10, 2019 
Poland said Sunday it will buy mobile rocket launchers worth $414 million (365 million euros) from the United States, as Warsaw seeks closer ties with Washington amid concerns over a resurgent Russia.
The deal, due to be signed Wednesday, will "significantly increase the Polish army's capacities," Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told journalists Sunday, adding that delivery was expected b ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2019 
Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled its newest tactical drone missile at the Aero India Show in Bangalore on Wednesday.
The missile, called the Mini Harpy, is in the category of "loitering missiles," also known as suicide drones or kamikaze drones. It is capable of flying, or loitering, in the vicinity of a target area, before it locates a target missile and attacks it. The Mini Harpy ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
NASA has selected two organizations to host the final phase of its four-year series of increasingly complicated technical demonstrations involving small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones.
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems in Las Vegas and the Lone Star UAS Center for Excellence and Innovation in Corpus Christi, Texas, will host demonstrations to confirm NA ... more |
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Raytheon was awarded a four-year contract for hardware and support services for a radio system to be used by the U.S. Army for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
The contract includes repair, logistical, engineering and technical support for the Army's AN/ARC-231 Multiple-Mode Aviation Radio Suite, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 19, 2019 
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems two contracts worth $575 million for low-rate production of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle.
In January, the company was awarded $128 million to start building the vehicles, and this month $447 million has been awarded for low-rate initial production.
The company said the vehicles, which are expected to replace Vietnam War-era M113s, meet t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 19, 2019 
The United Arab Emirates announced defense contract deals worth more than $3 billion on the first two days of the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, including becoming the first customer of Lockheed Martin's new anti-missile system.
The Middle East nation announced 33 deals on the opening day Sunday at IDEX 2019, including 15 deals with foreign nations worth j ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 19, 2019 
The USS Donald Cook and ships from NATO's Standing Mine Countermeasures Group 2 entered the Black Sea on Tuesday, with their movements tracked by Russian vessels.
The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer departed Batumi, Georgia, where it conducted an exercise with two of the nation's coast guard ships, according to the U.S. Navy.
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 Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 
Three-dimensional structures on the micrometer and nanometer scales have a great potential for many applications. An efficient and precise process to print such structures from different materials is now presented by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Carl Zeiss AG in Science Advances: they integrated a microfluidic chamber into a 3D laser lithography device. Then, they u ... more |
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 Najaf, Iraq (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 
Iraqi security forces on Tuesday found the bodies of six out of 12 people who were abducted over the weekend southwest of Baghdad, an official said.
"Armed men on motorbikes" abducted the group on Sunday as they collected truffles in the Al-Nukhaib region in the desert between Najaf and Al-Anbar provinces, security forces said in a statement Monday evening.
The governor of Al-Hira distri ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 15, 2019 
Russia gave "no new signals" Friday about saving a landmark Cold War missile control agreement, the head of NATO said, as fears grow of a new arms race in Europe.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Segei Lavrov brought no breakthrough and no indication that Moscow might be willing to back down over a missile system which NATO says breaches the Int ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP on Tuesday reported a lower-than-expected US$3.73 billion half-yearly profit, as it warned of a softening Chinese market and growing trade rows.
The underlying profit for the six months to December 31 was eight percent lower than the US$4.05 billion recorded in the previous corresponding period, missing market expectations after a series of operational probl ... more |
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 Mexico City (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday that an island penal colony housing 600 inmates will be converted into a cultural and scientific center.
The four Islas Marias islands lie 120-kilometers (75 miles) off the northwest coast of Mexican state Nayarit.
The largest of those, Isla Maria Madre, has housed a prison since 1905 in which inmates, some of whom live wit ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 
A former chief of staff of China's military was sentenced to life in prison, state media said Wednesday, after he was swept up in President Xi Jinping's ongoing anti-graft crackdown.
Appointed to the People's Liberation Army's top post in 2012, Fang Fenghui was convicted of accepting and offering bribes, and having an unclear source of a huge amount of assets, official news agency Xinhua rep ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 18, 2019  As the end nears for the IS enclave in Syria and the fate of jihadists' family members becomes a pressing issue, Russia can be seen as a pioneer in systematically returning children of Islamist fighters home.
A potential homecoming of the many foreign women who have gone to live in the IS "caliphate" and their children, many of whom were born there, has been a subject of debate in Russia, wi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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