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India to relax arms purchase rules: official
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 17, 2008India, which plans to purchase billions of dollars worth of military hardware in the next five years, will soon relax strict rules on arms imports, officials say. A new Defence Procurement Policy, or DPP, will be unveiled by April, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Saturday at a defence fair in the capital. "We have been fine-tuning and improving the DPP based on periodical reviews ... more Arecibo Observatory Astronomers Discover First Near-Earth Triple Asteroid 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was discovered this week by astronomers at the radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Cornell and Arecibo astronomer Michael C. Nolan said he a ... more New Radar Tracking And Sensor Fusion System Delivered To US Marines 
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Northrop Grumman has delivered the first three production units of a new-generation multi-radar tracker (MRT) system to the U.S. Marine Corps that will enable the fusing of multiple sensor inputs into a single radar picture for enhanced mobile command-and-control operations. "This is the most capable version yet of our AN/TYQ-23 radar tracking product, which has benefited from ongoing ... more Northrop Grumman Completes Demonstration Of New Synthetic Aperture Radar Capability For F-22 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated the capability to generate high-resolution, in-flight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) maps using the AESA (active electronically scanned array) radar being produced for the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft. "The flight tests, on board a company BAC 1-11 test bed aircraft, have proved that the F-22 fighter's mission capabilities ... more US to shoot down satellite: officials 
Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2008President George W. Bush has directed a US warship to shoot down an out-of-commission spy satellite before it crashes to Earth, senior US officials said Thursday. "The president directed the Department of Defense to carry out the intercept" after concluding that it would help prevent loss of life from the uncontrolled descent, said Deputy National Security Adviser James Jeffrey. ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) Feb 12, 2007 When you consider how much money Americans spend on defense -- about $4 trillion so far in this decade alone -- it's amazing what a poor job we do of maintaining our military arsenal. In the years since the Cold War ended, the U.S. Navy's fleet has shrunk by half to fewer than 300 ships, the U.S. Air Force's planes have "matured" to twice the age of the commercial airline fleet, and ... more Russia-China space deal to counter US shield move: diplomats 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 12, 2008Russian and Chinese ambitions for a new treaty banning weapons in space are aimed at countering US plans to construct a missile defence shield, diplomats said Tuesday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the plans in a speech to the Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva. The new treaty would prohibit the deployment of weapons of any kind in space, and the use or threat ... more Putin issues warning to Ukraine on NATO 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 12, 2008President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Russia would not interfere in Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO but might be forced to aim missiles at its neighbour if Ukraine hosted Western missile-defence facilities. Speaking after talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko at the Kremlin, Putin said that joining NATO was Kiev's prerogative, although he warned it would "limit Ukraine's ... more Military Aircraft To Perform Aviation Safety Research 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 12, 2008The S-3B Viking was built to take off and land on carrier ships, fly into enemy territory and take out threatening submarines. It's rugged, fast and powerful, but its fighting days are numbered. Though the United States Navy is slowly decommissioning the fleet, one S-3B is still flying in hostile conditions. Its next mission? Venture into hazardous weather to study a phenomenon that has ... more Mikros ADEPT Equipment Considered For Baseline In US Navy Cruiser Modernization Program 
Fort Washington PA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Mikros Systems has announced that its ADEPT Radar Test Set equipment is a candidate for inclusion in the equipment baseline of the United States Navy AEGIS Cruiser and Destroyer Modernization program. The ADEPT system, developed by Mikros under the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program, has been extensively tested by the Navy on land and at sea, and has proven to be ... more |
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Vilnius (AFP) Feb 8, 2008NATO is looking into how a planned US missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic could relate to the alliance, on both technical and political levels, its secretary general said Friday. We are working at a technical level to answer a number of technical questions but we are of course also discussing this at the political level in answering the question (of) how NATO responsibility on ... more Russia still open to dialogue on US missile plan: Gates 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 9, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday that Russia was still willing to discuss Washington's plans to set up an anti-missile shield in Europe despite its tough rhetoric. "We are continuing the dialogue with them," Gates told reporters after a meeting with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on the sidelines of an international security forum in Munich. ... more US missile plan is surrounding Russia: Lavrov 
Warsaw (AFP) Feb 7, 2008Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday blasted US plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe, using a Polish newspaper interview to accuse Washington of imperialism and seeking to encircle Russia. "Elements of the strategic anti-missile defence system already exist or are being set up in Alaska, California, in northeast Asia. When you look at a map, it becomes clear that everything ... more Kiev Radar Row Set To Inflame Tensions Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 6, 2007 Unlike the Russian radars deployed in Azerbaijan, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the Ukrainian systems are not manned by Russian officers. Both the qualifications of the radars' civilian Ukrainian personnel and the data they provide to Russia are questionable. The Sevastopol radar is the larger of the two problems because unlicensed radio stations of vessels fishing in the Black Sea use the same ... more ESA Presents Mars In 3D 
Paris (ESA) Feb 5, 2008The European Space Agency on Tuesday unveiled images of Mars in three dimensions to help understand the Red Planet's unique topography. The Digital Terrain Model pictures have been built up thanks to a high-resolution stereoscopic camera aboard Mars Express, the ESA orbiter. Mars has extraordinary canyons and plains as well as the highest known mountain in the Solar System ... more
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