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  Washington (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 The big-spending Pentagon opened a campaign Tuesday against the consolidation of defense contractors, saying competition has dwindled as arms suppliers merge and supersize. In an official report, the Department of Defense (DoD), which has a budget of $768 billion this year, said the shrinking number of suppliers threatens national security and limits the potential for developing new technologies essential to future warfare. The report said the department needs to make concerted efforts to boost ... read more |
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Sites of Ukraine defence ministry, state banks under cyberattackKyiv (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Ukraine said on Tuesday that the websites of the country's defence ministry and armed forces as well as two state banks had been hit by a cyberattack of possibly Russian origin. ... more  
Lithuanian troops in Ukraine to provide missile trainingVilnius (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Lithuanian troops left for Ukraine on Tuesday to train local forces in the use of US-made anti-aircraft missile systems, which the Baltic state provided amid fears of a Russian invasion. ... more  
Iran says 'verification' needed for good nuclear dealTehran (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Iran's top security official said Tuesday a "guarantee" and "verification" would be needed for Vienna talks to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, in apparent reference to any US commitments. ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne positioned to continue driving growth, profitability and value creationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. has reaffirmed its strong foundation for substantial value creation following the termination of its merger agreement with Lockheed Martin Corporation. The Company ... more |
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Russian army, Putin's favoured foreign policy toolMoscow (AFP) Feb 16, 2022 Whether they have been camped out on Ukraine's borders or moving tanks across the vast country, Russia's battle-hardened troops have made the world listen to Vladimir Putin, who wants to redefine European security. ... more 
Norway boosts its troop contingent in LithuaniaOslo (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Norway on Tuesday said it was sending an additional "50-60 soldiers" to Lithuania as part of NATO's so-called reassurance mission, amid regional fears over the Ukraine crisis. ... more 
Russian lawmakers urge Putin to recognise Ukraine separatist regionsMoscow (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Russian parliament on Tuesday voted to urge President Vladimir Putin to recognise the independence of Ukraine's separatist regions amid tensions with the West over Moscow's troop build-up. ... more  
US Navy engineer admits trying to sell nuclear sub secretsWashington (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 A US Navy engineer admitted in federal court on Monday that he tried to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to a foreign power, the Justice Department said. ... more  
Russia's defence minister in Syria for Assad meetingMoscow (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad and to inspect a Russian air base in the war-torn country, his ministry said Tuesday, amid heightened tensions between the West and Moscow over Ukraine. ... more |
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China's land-observing satellite starts to take picturesBeijing (XNA) Feb 15, 2022 A Chinese remote-sensing satellite started to take pictures in its orbit, scientists in charge of the satellite said Friday. China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place the L-SAR 01A satell ... more  
Taiwan researchers join ISRO in satellite launch mission for first timeMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2022 The launch of the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04), scheduled for September 2021, was delayed due to the pandemic as engineers and scientists were working remotely. However, to make up for the d ... more 
Russia sees 'chance' to agree with West on security: Lavrov to PutinMoscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told President Vladimir Putin that there was a "chance" of reaching an agreement on security with the West, in what appeared to be a possible climbdown amid raging tensions over Ukraine. ... more 
Russia ready for more talks to end Ukraine standoffMoscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Russia held the door open Monday to further talks on resolving its standoff with the West and said some of its military drills were ending, signalling a possible easing of the crisis over Ukraine. ... more 
UK to send 'small number' of troops to LithuaniaLondon (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Britain will send a small number of troops to Lithuania, in response to "pressures along its border with Belarus" and amid heightened fears Russia may invade Ukraine, officials said Monday. ... more |
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 Peterson SFB CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed Martin, has been operationally accepted by the U.S. Space Force less than a year after being launched into orbit.
The early missile warning satellite is a "Go-Fast" success story, completing all on-orbit testing with accelerated analysis, resulting in a 40% improvement over GEO-1 thro ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday announced the development of a surface-to-surface missile whose stated range would put arch foe Israel within reach.
The Guards' Sepahnews website said the missile was named the Khaybarchekan after a victorious battle fought by the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century.
Armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri described it as a ... more |
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 Cochstedt, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
What happens when the radio connection to a drone is interrupted? How can drones fly autonomously even in congested traffic? These and other questions were addressed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in the final phase of its City Air Traffic Management (City-ATM) project.
The researchers focused on investigating traffic scenarios in which a la ... more |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 
Raytheon Intelligence and Space has completed Thermal Vacuum Testing of its sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared, or Next-Gen OPIR GEO, Block 0 missile warning satellites designed and built by spacecraft prime contractor Lockheed Martin. Testing was completed on Jan. 27, 2022.
"Space is a dynamic environment. Ensuring our instruments are pr ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10.
The test team - representing a broad base of Air Force, Navy, and vendor organizations - successfully executed eight sorties aboard a T-38C aircraft, which included the first test of the PNT AgilePod on ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 
US defense company Lockheed Martin has given up its $4.4 billion takeover of propulsion systems manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne after regulators sued to stop the deal.
In a statement released Sunday, Lockheed Martin cited the lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in late January as the reason for abandoning the deal, which the FTC argued would lead to higher costs on defense sy ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
Russian parliament on Tuesday voted to urge President Vladimir Putin to recognise the independence of Ukraine's separatist regions amid tensions with the West over Moscow's troop build-up.
The speaker of Russian parliament's lower house, Vyacheslav Volodin, said that lawmakers had decided to call on Putin to recognise two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as "sovereign and independent sta ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Physicists from MIPT and Skoltech have found a way to modify and purposely tune the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes to meet the requirements of novel electronic devices. The paper came out in the Carbon journal.
Carbon nanomaterials form an extensive class of compounds that includes graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, nanofibers, and more. Although the physical properties of many of ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 13, 2022 
An Iraqi court sentenced to death on Sunday a police officer and an informant over a deadly operation in December that left 20 people from the same family dead.
The two men can appeal the verdict, handed down by the criminal court in the central province of Babylon, a judiciary source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Security forces in December opened fire on a house in the ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 
Iran on Monday said talks with world powers in Vienna to restore the 2015 nuclear deal are "complicated and difficult" but have not hit an impasse.
"The negotiations are complicated and difficult as they have reached key issues that need serious political decisions especially by Washington," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a news conference.
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 
Beijing on Thursday fended off accusations that it had not honoured its commitments to a 2020 trade pact with the United States, calling instead for Washington to lift punitive tariffs and sanctions "as soon as possible".
The comments came as US figures released Tuesday showed the trade deficit with China ballooning by $6 billion to $34.1 billion in December 2021.
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 
As a pioneer in so-called attribution science - establishing a link between extreme weather and climate change - Friederike Otto is adamant that the rising toll of heatwaves and hurricanes cannot be explained by global warming alone.
AFP spoke to Otto, a physicist at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, ahead of the release of a major UN climate report on c ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022 
China will make six manned space flights in 2022 to complete the building of its space station and see the maiden flight of Long March-6A, the country's first carrier rocket powered by a solid and liquid engine.
Ma Tao, deputy director of the Space Department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), revealed on Wednesday China's rocket launch plan at a press confer ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
A former boyband member turned democracy campaigner was arrested by Hong Kong's national security police on Tuesday on charges of sedition and money laundering.
Local media said one of two people arrested was Tommy Yuen, a former member of Cantopop boyband "E-Kids".
A police source confirmed to AFP that Yuen was among those arrested.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 3, 2022 
By early December US intelligence was certain: the man occupying the top floor of a nondescript house in Atme, northern Syria - who never left the premises, emerging only to bathe on the roof - was the head of the Islamic State group.
In the White House Situation Room, a table-top model of the house was set up, and President Joe Biden was briefed on his options to neutralize Abu Ibrahim al ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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