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  Sterling VA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 T-Worx Holdings, LLC, a product innovation company, announced it will support the contractors chosen and announced by the Army today to develop weapons for the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) program. T-Worx is currently the only approved vendor for the U.S. Army's Picatinny Smart Rail, synonymous with the T-Worx Intelligent Rail platform (I-Rail). The platform is included as a threshold requirement for the Army's NGSW Rifle and Automatic Rifle. As part of the Army's down-select process repor ... read more |
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'No one has illusions': Roscosmos head comments on US space militarizationMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, commented on US President Donald Trump's statement that space is becoming the next "warfighting domain", saying that everything headed i ... more  
MIT's fleet of autonomous boats can now shapeshiftBoston MA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 MIT's fleet of robotic boats has been updated with new capabilities to "shapeshift," by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into a variety of configurations, to form floating structures in A ... more  
Arms dealer handed 30 years' prison by US courtLos Angeles (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 An international arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Los Angeles federal court Monday for conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles to Libyan militants and other customers in the Middle East. ... more  
Bolsonaro's son heads to Washington to thank Trump for Amazon supportRio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son and hopeful ambassador to the United States is set to travel to Washington Friday to thank Donald Trump for his support during the crisis surrounding the fires in the Amazon rainforest. ... more |
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NASA prepares for green run testing, practices lifting SLS Core StageStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 NASA cleared a milestone in preparation for Green Run testing of its Space Launch System (SLS) core stage with an Aug. 23/24 lift and installation of the core stage pathfinder simulator onto the B-2 ... more  
NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic ClockPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019 An atomic clock that could pave the way for autonomous deep space travel was successfully activated last week and is ready to begin its year-long tech demo, the mission team confirmed on Friday, Aug ... more 
Arianespace will launch Ovzon-3 satelliteEvry, France (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 Arianespace has announced the signature of a launch services contract with Ovzon for the company's first geostationary-orbiting telecommunications satellite: Ovzon-3. With offices in Sweden and the ... more  
Fast transit ship USNS Puerto Rico completes sea trialsWashington (UPI) Aug 26, 2019 The U.S. Navy's Expeditionary Fast Transport ship USNS Puerto Rico finished its first integrated sea trials after two days in the Gulf of Mexico. ... more  
Air Force C-130s back in service after checks for wing cracksWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2019 All but one of the Total Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft of the U.S. Air Force grounded earlier this month to address cracks in wing joints have been cleared for duty. ... more |
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 Four F/A-18 Super Hornets damaged in E-2D carrier landing incident 
Sikorsky nets $48.3M for CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter partsWashington (UPI) Aug 21, 2019 Sikorsky Aircraft Co. was awarded a $48.3 million U.S. Navy contract for spare parts to maintain CH-53K helicopters, the Defense Department announced. ... more  |
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Lockheed Martin wins two contracts for F-35 upgradesWashington (UPI) Aug 20, 2019 Lockheed Martin Corp. received two contracts, valued at $32.1 million and $12 million, for modifications to F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter planes, the Pentagon announced. ... more 
Boeing contracted for Qatar F-15QA aircrew, maintenance training, supportWashington (UPI) Aug 29, 2019 Boeing has been awarded a $500 million contract for services on Qatar's F-15QAs, the first three of which are expected for delivery in 2021. ... more  
Yemen government accuses UAE of launching air strikes on its troopsAden (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 Yemen's government on Thursday accused the UAE of launching air strikes against its troops in the interim capital Aden in support of separatists who say they have regained control of the southern city. ... more 
Trump launches new Pentagon command for space warfareWashington (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 President Donald Trump launched a new Pentagon command dedicated to warfare in space Thursday, as American armed forces chiefs see China and Russia pressing hard to erode the US advantage in the newest military frontier. ... more  
Ma vs Musk: tech tycoons spar on future of AIShanghai (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 Jack Ma believes artificial intelligence poses no threat to humanity, but Elon Musk called that "famous last words" as the billionaire tech tycoons faced off Thursday in an occasionally animated debate on futurism in Shanghai. ... more |
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 Zhukovsky (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 
Washington has repeatedly criticised India's defence cooperation with Russia since it sees the country as its major partner in Southern Asia. The United States made an attempt in 2018 to prevent India from reaching the deal with Russia on purchasing the S-400s.
Russia has received from India an advance payment for S-400 air defence missile systems, the Federal Service for Military-Technica ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 29, 2019  The Israeli army on Thursday accused Iran of collaborating with Lebanon's Hezbollah to assemble precision-guided missiles that could cause "massive" human casualties in Israel.
Tehran and the Shiite movement plan to convert "stupid rockets into precision-guided missiles", Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists in a conference call.
He said Iran had tried between 2013 a ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 
Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a raid.
The attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based near Al-Qaim about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Iraq's western desertic border with neighbouring Syria.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
The Data Relay Satellite EDRS-C was successfully launched at 21:30 CEST on 6 August 2019. After receiving the first telemetry data, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) took over operation of the satellite. Now that the first critical launch phase with several orbital manoeuvres has been completed EDRS-C can enter the test phase. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und ... more |
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 Sterling VA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
T-Worx Holdings, LLC, a product innovation company, announced it will support the contractors chosen and announced by the Army today to develop weapons for the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) program.
T-Worx is currently the only approved vendor for the U.S. Army's Picatinny Smart Rail, synonymous with the T-Worx Intelligent Rail platform (I-Rail). The platform is included as a thresh ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 
An international arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Los Angeles federal court Monday for conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles to Libyan militants and other customers in the Middle East.
The trafficking operation run by Rami Najm Asad-Ghanem was described as "breathtaking and frightening" by Judge James Otero, who pronounced the sentence.
Ghanem, a 53-year-old natu ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son and hopeful ambassador to the United States is set to travel to Washington Friday to thank Donald Trump for his support during the crisis surrounding the fires in the Amazon rainforest.
"Our minister Ernesto Araujo and Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro will be received this Friday by President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington," the Brazilian leade ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 
Iraq has condemned comments by Bahrain's top diplomat describing alleged Israeli strikes on the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force as "self-defence."
A string of Hashed al-Shaabi bases across Iraq have been hit by explosions and drone sightings over the past five weeks that the force has blamed on Israel and the US.
Earlier this week, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled bin Ahmed ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Aug 29, 2019  The EU would support talks between the United States and Iran, the bloc's diplomatic chief said Thursday, but only if the current nuclear deal with Tehran is preserved.
Washington and Tehran have been locked in a bitter standoff since last year when US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 deal that gave Iran relief from sanctions in return for curbs on its atomic progra ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Norway, which is part of European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA) grouping four non-EU members, on Tuesday regretted the "awful timing" of a trade pact with Mercosur, as fires rage in the Amazon.
Faced with massive criticism for his handling of the blazes in the rainforests, Brazilian President Jose Bolsonaro on Friday announced the agreement between EFTA, formed by Iceland, Norway, Switzerland ... more |
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 Ignalina, Lithuania (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 
Walking along the top of Lithuania's decommissioned nuclear reactor, the set of HBO's critically acclaimed "Chernobyl" TV series, tourist Vytas Miknaitis says he's not "afraid at all".
"They know what they're doing," the retired computer engineer from Chicago says, referring to organisers of the three-hour tour of the Ignalina power station in eastern Lithuania.
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 
Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists were arrested Friday in a dragnet that came as protesters planned to rally this weekend in defiance of a police ban.
Hong Kong has been locked in a three months of political crisis, with increasingly violent clashes between police and protesters that have prompted an escalating public relations campaign from Beijing.
Protesters planned yet another ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2019 
Researchers at the University of Surrey in England have developed a way to scan for and identify a wide range of bomb-making materials in just 30 seconds.
The chemical fingerprinting technology requires the swabbing of materials, which can then be tested. The method can identify trace amounts of a variety of chemicals used in explosives, including nitrotoluenes, trinitrotriazine, hexame ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship.
While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development.
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