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  Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 Northrop Grumman will develop, produce and integrate scramjet combustors to power Raytheon's air-breathing hypersonic weapons, the two companies said in announcing a teaming agreement. The two companies in a joint news release Tuesday said they will work together to accelerate the "development and demonstrate readiness to produce the next generation of tactical missile systems." Scramjet is short for supersonic combustion ramjet. The engines use high vehicle speed to forcibly compress in ... read more |
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Turkey says US ultimatum over Russian S-400 'not in spirit of alliance'Ankara (AFP) June 18, 2019 Turkey accused the United States on Tuesday of not acting as an ally, in its official response to Washington's ultimatum to Ankara to abandon a deal to buy a Russian missile defence system. ... more  
New Pentagon chief an ex-soldier who moved to the defense industryWashington (AFP) June 19, 2019 Secretary of the Army Mark Esper, who was chosen by President Donald Trump to be the new acting Pentagon chief, is a former military man who moved to the defense industry. ... more 
Shanahan's Pentagon rise upended by painful family pastWashington (AFP) June 18, 2019 Patrick Shanahan - a onetime Boeing engineer who spent the last two years at the Pentagon - seemed set to lead the world's most powerful military, until a history of violent incidents in his family derailed his plans. ... more  
AEHF-5 encapsulated and prepared for launchTitusville FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 The U.S. Air Force's fifth Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) built Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite (AEHF-5) completed encapsulation into its payload fairing in preparation to launch aboard a U ... more |
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Russia, China, block US effort to halt N. Korea fuel deliveriesUnited Nations, United States (AFP) June 19, 2019 Russia and China on Tuesday blocked an American initiative that aimed to halt fuel deliveries to North Korea, which Washington accuses of exceeding its annual ceiling for 2019, diplomatic sources said. ... more  
Russia warns US over extra troop deployment to MideastMoscow (AFP) June 18, 2019 Russia on Tuesday called for restraint to avoid escalation in the Middle East after the US said it was deploying additional troops due to heightened tensions with Iran. ... more 
US announces $250 million in military aid to UkraineWashington (AFP) June 18, 2019 The United States announced Tuesday a $250 million military aid package for war-torn Ukraine to strengthen the former Soviet republic's naval and land capabilities. ... more  
MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down over Yemen on June 6, CENTCOM saysWashington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 U.S. Central Command confirmed that a MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down over Yemen at an altitude that suggested Iranian involvement. ... more  
KC-46 fix months away as more debris found in new refuelersWashington (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 As the U.S. Air Force continues to find foreign objects in its new KC-46A Pegasus in-flight refueling tankers, a "fix" is months away, the branch's acquisition leader said. ... more |
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Melting a satellite, a piece at a timeParis (ESA) Jun 18, 2019 Researchers took one of the densest parts of an Earth-orbiting satellite, placed it in a plasma wind tunnel then proceeded to melt it into vapour. Their goal was to better understand how satellites ... more  |
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Viasat to become first commercial customer to launch aboard the Ariane 64Evry, France (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 Viasat and Arianespace, have reported a modification to their original ViaSat-3 satellite launch contract, signed in 2016. Under the new agreement, the two companies agreed to move the ViaSat-3 sate ... more 
Compliant space mechanismsBethesda MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 Compliant mechanisms are flexible devices that transfer input forces and displacements to an output force and displacement at another location through elastic body deformation. In other words, these ... more  
Surveillance-savvy Hong Kong protesters go digitally darkHong Kong (AFP) June 13, 2019 Hong Kong's tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions, disabling location tracking on their phones, buying train tickets with cash and purging their social media conversations. ... more 
Collins Aerospace to provide Environmental Control System and more for NASA X-59 Low-Boom Flight DemonstratorParis, France (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 Collins Aerospace Systems has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide the Environmental Control Systems (ECS), flaps, ailerons and rudder for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircra ... more 
Enabling revolutionary nondestructive inspection capabilityWashington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 X-rays and gamma rays have a wide range of applications including scanning suspicious maritime shipping containers for illicit materials, industrial inspection of materials and processes, and medica ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) June 18, 2019 
Turkey accused the United States on Tuesday of not acting as an ally, in its official response to Washington's ultimatum to Ankara to abandon a deal to buy a Russian missile defence system.
The Turkish defence ministry said in a statement that "the wording and approach" of a letter sent this month by Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan "was not in the spirit of an alliance (and) cau ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 
Science Applications International was awarded a $41.8 million contract over five years for overhaul and supplemental repair of MK-82 directors and AN/SPG-62 antenna systems - both part of the AEGIS combat system suite - for the U.S. Navy.
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, covers the two systems, which are part of the MK-99 Fire Control System, itself part o ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 
A new energy-efficient data routing algorithm developed by an international team could keep unmanned aerial vehicle swarms flying - and helping - longer, report an international team of researchers this month in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing.
UAV swarms are cooperative, intercommunicating groups of UAVs used for a wide and growing variety of civilian and military applications. In ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 18, 2019  RBC Signals, the multi-national provider of flexible and cost-effective space communication services, reports it is the recipient of a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award.
Awarded under the topic "Commercial Solutions for Innovative Space Data Analytics", the RBC Signals award is managed out of the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Resear ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 
The U.S. Army participated in a joint exercise with host Bulgaria's air force, navy and land forces as part of Shabla 19 from June 10-15.
Shabla 19, which took place along the Black Sea coast in northeastern Bulgaria, is designed to improve readiness and interoperability between the Bulgarian forces and the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Shabla, U.S. Army Europe, according ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 19, 2019 
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper, who was chosen by President Donald Trump to be the new acting Pentagon chief, is a former military man who moved to the defense industry.
"I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!" Trump wrote in a tweet announcing his appointment.
Unlike his predecessor in the post, who had no military experience, 55-year-old Esper who served in the 1 ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2019  Russia on Tuesday called for restraint to avoid escalation in the Middle East after the US said it was deploying additional troops due to heightened tensions with Iran.
"We are urging all the sides to show restraint," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in response to a question on the deployment.
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) June 18, 2019 
The trial of an elite US Navy SEAL accused of shooting unarmed civilians and stabbing a teenage captive to death in Iraq began Monday at a military court in California.
Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, is charged with several war crimes including premeditated murder, attempted murder of two civilians with his sniper rifle and obstruction of justice.
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 Stockholm (AFP) June 17, 2019  The overall number of nuclear warheads in the world has declined in the past year but nations are modernising their arsenals, a report published Monday said.
At the start of 2019, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea had a total of some 13,865 nuclear weapons, according to estimates in a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Res ... more |
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 Chongqing, China (AFP) June 19, 2019  In many Chinese cities, government restrictions have cooled formerly feverish property markets, but in the southwestern city of Chongqing, construction is booming and sales soaring as investors rush in.
The most audacious evidence is one of the newest additions to the city's skyline, a mega project of eight futuristic high-rises, six of which are connected by a vertiginous skybridge.
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 Nesconset, United States (AFP) June 16, 2019 
Michael Kidd, now 84 years old, fought in the Korean War. His young German shepherd Millie helps calm him down when things start to swirl, usually at night.
Harry Stolberg - a 42-year-old former Marine who served in Bosnia, Liberia and Nigeria - has a chocolate Labrador named Rocky who wakes him up from his troubled dreams.
And 31-year-old Phil Davanzo - who carried the bodies of fal ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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 London (AFP) June 18, 2019 
Forced organ harvesting has been carried out "for years throughout China" and members of the Falun Gong spiritual group have "probably" been the main victims, according to a panel of lawyers.
A report by the London-based China Tribunal, released to journalists ahead of a summary to be published online on Wednesday, concluded that "forced organ harvesting continues till today".
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 The Hague (AFP) June 14, 2019  The Islamic State group is targeting women from the millennial generation as it seeks new recruits after the fall of its so-called caliphate, the EU's police agency said Friday.
In a report on IS propaganda focussed on women, Europol said that this could "pave the way" for a change in the role of female jihadists in future terror organisations.
"We are talking about especially millennial ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 
Harry Sinsheimer serves as the Deputy Director to the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office (DE JTO) since February 2017. Harry's experience, knowledge, skills and understanding of laser technology, directed energy weapons, test and evaluation, financial management, logistics, program analysis, organizational and force structure is helping advocate, develop and execute a DE JTO investment stra ... more |
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