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  Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2019 The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a $713 million contract to provide a missile system for Poland as the United States considers setting up a major military base in the former Communist nation. The contract is for the first phase of Poland's Wisla Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, Northrop Gumman said in news releases Wednesday. Patriots are deployed in the system. Northrop Grumman will manufacture IBCS engagement operations centers and integrated fire con ... read more |
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US 'hopeful' for continued talks with N. KoreaWashington (AFP) March 15, 2019 The United States voiced hope Friday that nuclear disarmament negotiations with North Korea would continue following reports that Pyongyang is considering suspending the talks. ... more 
North Korea considering suspending nuclear talks with USSeoul (AFP) March 15, 2019 North Korea is considering suspending denuclearisation talks with Washington after the Hanoi summit between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump ended without agreement, one of its top diplomats said Friday. ... more  
Pentagon establishing new agency to oversee US military space technology developmentWashington (Sputnik) Mar 15, 2019 The Department of Defence (DoD) is creating a new Space Development Agency (SDA) oversee the development of sensors and weapons to counter advances by Russia and China, Acting Defense Secretary Patr ... more  
United Launch Alliance launches WGS-10 satellite for USAFCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on March 15 at 8:26 p.m. EDT. ... more |
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Iraqi Kurds commemorate Halabja massacreHalabja, Iraq (AFP) March 16, 2019 Hundreds of Kurds gathered in the Iraqi town of Halabja on Saturday in a tearful ceremony commemorating Saddam Hussein's poison gas attack there which killed some 5,000 people, mostly women and children. ... more 
US to deny visas to ICC members probing US troops in AfghanistanWashington (AFP) March 15, 2019 The United States announced on Friday it would deny visas to members of the International Criminal Court involved in investigating the actions of US troops in Afghanistan or other countries. ... more  
Australia to launch Indian Ocean military exercises from ColomboColombo (AFP) March 15, 2019 Australia will launch a seven-nation Indian Ocean military exercise next week, starting in Sri Lanka where China has invested in strategic ports and loaned huge amounts to build other infrastructure, Canberra's envoy said Friday. ... more  
Arlington National Cemetery land expansion to begin next yearWashington (UPI) Mar 14, 2019 Work is scheduled to begin next year to expand Arlington National Cemetery as burial space is running out. ... more 
US, Kabul ties tense over Taliban talksWashington (AFP) March 14, 2019 A close aide to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday sparked a diplomatic spat with the United States by offering tough criticism of Washington's talks with the Taliban. ... more |
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Navy to honor Navajo Nation with new class of vesselsWashington (UPI) Mar 14, 2019 A new class of Navy ships will be named to Navajo to honor the Navajo Nation, the Secretary of the Navy announced. ... more  |
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Iraq opens first IS mass grave in Yazidi regionKojo, Iraq (AFP) March 15, 2019 Iraqi authorities on Friday opened a first mass grave containing victims of the Islamic State group in the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar, where jihadists brutally targeted the minority. ... more 
UN warned of effort to 'seriously damage' Colombia peace dealBogota (AFP) March 12, 2019 Negotiators of the historic peace pact between Colombia and the FARC rebel group warned the United Nations on Monday that President Ivan Duque's government aims to "seriously damage" the accord. ... more  
ESA greenlight for UK's air-breathing rocket engineSwindon, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 The development programme of the world's first air-breathing rocket engine has taken an additional significant step forward, which will lead to major testing milestones being undertaken within the n ... more 
Russia's New Hypersonic Nuclear WeaponBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 In December 2018, Russia tested a new hypersonic weapon designed to sneak under current U.S. ballistic missile defenses. The Avangard, a winged glider weapon boosted high into the atmosphere by a ba ... more  
Pentagon denies US wants 'cost + 50%' from allies for basesWashington (AFP) March 14, 2019 Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan denied Thursday reports that the United States has a "cost-plus-50 percent" formula for allies to pay for the US military presence on their soil. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2019 
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a $713 million contract to provide a missile system for Poland as the United States considers setting up a major military base in the former Communist nation.
The contract is for the first phase of Poland's Wisla Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, Northrop Gumman said in news releases Wednesday. Patriots are deployed in t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $84.1 million contract by the U.S. Navy for design and engineering services on four existing missile systems, the Defense Department announced.
The contract, awarded to the company's Missile and Fire Control division in Orlando, Fla., was announced on Tuesday. It calls for design and development studies, technology demonstrations and engineering serv ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
World ATM Congress - Today, AirMap, the leading global airspace management platform for drones, and Honeywell announced the development of a cost-effective drone tracking solution to provide airspace safety authorities with situational awareness of manned and unmanned aircraft operations within an airspace system.
Together, the companies will develop a cost-effective hardware device to all ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFC LF (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The launch is planned for March 15 at Space Launch Complex-37 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
"ULA is proud to be the exclusive launch provider for all ten WGS missions," said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Comme ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019 
U.S. Special Operations Command will purchase an undisclosed number of advanced sniper rifles from Barrett Firearms, the Defense Department announced this week.
The $49.9 million contract calls for production of the .300 PRC [precision rifle cartridge] MRAD weapons by the Christiana, Tenn.-based company, with a competition date of March 2024.
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has pr ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 12, 2019 
President Donald Trump's 2020 budget provides for a five percent increase in defense spending, notably to finance building his controversial border wall, while slashing funds for diplomacy by 23 percent.
If approved as is - an unlikely scenario given opposition in Congress - military spending would increase to $750 billion for fiscal year 2020, which begins in October 2019.
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 Washington (AFP) March 14, 2019
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan denied Thursday reports that the United States has a "cost-plus-50 percent" formula for allies to pay for the US military presence on their soil.
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump is pushing the formula as a basis for Germany, Japan and other allies to compensate Washington for US troops based in their countries.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 
Even the smallest mechanical pumps have limitations, from the complex microfabrication techniques required to make them to the fact that there are limits on how small they can be. Researchers have announced a potential solution - a laser-driven photoacoustic microfluidic pump, capable of moving fluids in any direction without moving parts or electrical contacts.
The work is described in th ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 11, 2019 
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani arrived Monday in Iraq for his first official visit, as Baghdad comes under pressure from Washington to limit political and trade ties with its neighbour.
Shiite-majority Iraq is walking a fine line to maintain good relations with its key partners Iran and the United States who themselves are arch-foes.
It has been under pressure from Washington not to get ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 15, 2019 
The United States voiced hope Friday that nuclear disarmament negotiations with North Korea would continue following reports that Pyongyang is considering suspending the talks.
Russian news agency TASS said the North's vice foreign minister Choe Son-Hui had rejected yielding to "US demands in any form," after the Hanoi summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump ended withou ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 15, 2019 
China's rubber-stamp parliament approved a foreign investment law Friday that may serve as an olive branch in trade talks with the United States, but it received a lukewarm welcome from business groups.
The legislation aims to address long-running grievances from foreign firms including stronger protections for intellectual property, but the US and European chambers of commerce voiced concer ... more |
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 New York (AFP) March 14, 2019  Connecticut's supreme court ruled Thursday that US gunmaker Remington can be sued over the 2012 massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in which one of its weapons was used.
The narrow 4-3 ruling raised the hopes of the families of the 20 schoolchildren and six school staff killed in the December 14, 2012 attack of punishing the marketers of the powerful Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle u ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 12, 2019 
A Chinese official accused "anti-China forces" in the West of using Christianity to subvert the country's political power and said worshippers must follow a Chinese form of religion.
China's officially atheist government, which oversees religious groups through state-sponsored institutions, has tightened its grip on all faiths in recent years.
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 The Hague (AFP) March 14, 2019 
A new chemical weapons investigation team with the power to assign blame for attacks such as those in Syria will start work in weeks, the head of the world's toxic arms organisation said.
Member countries of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons agreed in June to allow the body to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks, but the new powers are strongly opposed by Mos ... 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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