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 Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 24, 2009 
More than 100 years have passed since the Tunguska Meteorite Event and the mystery of its occurrence remains unsolved, but scientists have not given up on solving the riddle. This July, an international research group from Italy and the United States ventured into deepest Siberia to investigate the most likely explanations of the mysterious event, and RIA Novosti correspondent David Burghardt ... read more 
St. Louis (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 The first Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet for the Royal Australian Air Force has had a test flight from Lambert International Airport in St. Louis as part of the manufacturer's preparations for the aircraft to make its maiden voyage to the buyer. Boeing unveiled the aircraft July 8 at the company's Integrated Defense Systems facility in St. Louis and the test flight took place on Tuesday ... more
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Northrop Grumman's newest active electronically scanned array (AESA) fighter sensor, the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), has been successfully installed on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. In November, SABR began a series of flight demonstrations aboard the company's test aircraft, successfully detecting and displaying multiple aerial targets and generating high ... more  
Le Plessis-Robinson, France (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Antoine Bouvier and Edward Nowak, the Chief Executive Officers of MBDA and the BUMAR group of Poland respectively, have met in France to sign a framework agreement between their two organisations. The full details of the final agreement will be established and formalised during the next two months in readiness for its signature this autumn. This agreement will see MBDA and BUMAR jointly in ... more  
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009It's no secret that unmanned aircraft are widely used in today's war to provide information, surveillance and armed reconnaissance. What's not widely known is the evaluation process these aircraft go through before they are delivered to the warfighter. Members of Detachment 5 of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center here test the MQ-1 Predator and three versions of the RQ-4 ... more  
Phuket, Thailand (AFP) July 21, 2009The signing by the United States this week of a friendship pact with Southeast Asia sends a strong signal of its desire to deepen ties and counter China's increasing influence, diplomats said. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will ink the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation on Wednesday in the Thai resort of Phuket during a meeting with her counterparts from the Association of Southeast ... more |
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Dayton OH (SPX) Jul 17, 2009Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) to continue providing Measurement and Signature Intelligence and Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (MASINT/AGI) to warfighters through the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP). The five-year, indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling value of $600 ... more  
Chicago (AFP) July 16, 2009US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said he would fight lawmakers to ensure cuts to the F-22 fighter program, saying it was a test of efforts to reform entrenched military spending. "It is time to draw the line on doing defense business as usual," Gates said in a speech, adding that President Barack Obama would make good on a threat to veto any defense budget that includes money ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) July 16, 2009Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer said Thursday it was on track to restate accounts going back seven years, after its founder-chairman had admitted to a massive corporate fraud in January. "We are likely to go back (in restating accounts) for at least 6-7 years. Work is in progress," company spokesman Sridhar Maturi told AFP by phone from the firm's headquarters in Hyderabad. ... more  
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Raytheon has been awarded one of three $30 million contracts for Phase A system design and prototype of the Space Fence system. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to detect and report space objects. "Space Fence is the future of space situational awareness," said Pete Franklin, vice president for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' National ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, something no ship had ever attempted before, and Neil needed his wits about him. He curled up on the Eagle's engine cover and closed his eyes. But he could not sleep. Neither cou ... more |
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