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US, Czech on cusp of missile shield deal
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2008US President George W. Bush and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Wednesday they were on the cusp of reaching agreement on a radar for a planned US missile shield that has angered Russia. "There are only three words remaining to resolve," Topolanek said through an interpreter as they met in the Oval Office. He later explained the hold-up related to environmental guidelines for any US ... more Czech PM in US touts missile shield plan 
Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2008Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek insisted a planned US missile defense radar in his country is crucial for security and accused its ex-Soviet master Russia of scrambling to retain influence by opposing the scheme. Russia "will probably not like to give up their sphere of influence over central Europe which I believe personally is the main reason of their protest against the missile ... more Joint ESA And Russian Team In Moscow Ready To Support Jules Verne 
Moscow (ESA) Feb 25, 2008When the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle is launched in early March it will use several key spacecraft hardware items such as the docking and refuelling systems, and the Kurs radar, procured in Russia. European and Russian engineers have worked together to adapt them from their previous use on the Russian spacecraft Progress and Soyuz to the much larger 20-tonne ATV vessel. ... more Czech, Poland close to deal on US anti-missile shield: officials 
Prague (AFP) Feb 25, 2008The Czech Republic and Poland said Monday they were both on the verge of striking a deal with Washington on hosting elements of an US anti-missile shield, despite Russian anger over the project. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is to finalise a deal on siting an anti-missile radar on Czech soil during a two-day visit to the United States starting Tuesday, his government said in a statement ... more Boeing Receives Full Government Acceptance Of SBInet Project 28 Border Security Solution 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 25, 2008Boeing received full acceptance of its SBInet Project 28 border security prototype Thursday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A demonstration of the SBInet security solution, P28 networks cameras, radars, sensors and communications along 28 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border near Sasabe, Ariz. Developed as a proof-of-concept of Boeing's overall SBInet technology solution ... more |
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Newtown CT (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Over the next 10 years, an estimated $23 billion will be spent on the development and production of major EW programs, according to Forecast International's "The Market for Electronic Warfare Systems." Some 35,814 units of leading electronic countermeasures, radar warning receivers, electronic support measures, and other EW systems that make up this analysis are expected to be ... more Northrop Grumman Unveils Active Electronically Scanned Array For F-16 
Linthicum MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2008Northrop Grumman unveiled a new company funded program to develop an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) at the Singapore Air Show. The Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) will be a full performance fire control AESA derived from proven AESA technology for light tactical aircraft. SABR is being designed for retrofit to existing F-16 aircraft and can be scaled to fit other platforms and missi ... 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 |
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Moscow (UPI) Feb 5, 2007 The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's Parliament, has approved the Jan. 25, 2008, decision of the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, to denounce the agreement with Ukraine on the use of its early warning radars. The bill will be forwarded to Russian President Vladimir Putin for approval. If Putin signs the relevant decree and the document is published in the offic ... more BAE To Radar USAF Warning Receivers For C-130J Transports 
Greenlawn NY (SPX) Feb 06, 2008BAE Systems has been awarded a $28.1 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide radar warning receiver systems for new-production C-130J transport aircraft. BAE Systems' AN/ALR-56M radar warning receiver detects a broad range of incoming radar signals and identifies and characterizes their origin as friend or foe, alerting the pilot when it detects threats to the aircraft. Under the contra ... more Ukraine to offer Europe former Soviet anti-missile radars 
Kiev (AFP) Feb 1, 2008Ukraine is offering western Europe access to its radars, previously a part of the former Soviet missile defence system, the Ukrainian space agency said Friday. "We envisage offering their use to Europe which is trying to create its own security system," the agency's director Yury Alexeyev told Interfax news agency. "Maybe Europe will be interested. We are going to modernise them to keep ... more British plans for wind turbines contested by defence ministry: report 
London (AFP) Feb 4, 2008Britain's defence ministry has raised objections over proposals to ramp up the proportion of the country's energy produced by wind farms, because of concerns over the impact of the turbines on military radar, The Times reported on Monday. A spokesman for Britain's business ministry conceded there had been "issues" regarding potential sites for wind farms, and military radar systems. ... more NASA Scientists Get First Images Of Earth Flyby Asteroid 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. The data indicate the asteroid is somewhat asymmetrical in shape, with a diameter roughly 250 meters (800 feet) in size. Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within 1.4 lunar distances, or 538,000 kilometers (334,000 miles), of Earth on Jan. 29 at 12 ... more
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