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Global Hawk Continues Round-the-Clock Reconnaissance In HaitiSan Diego Ca (SPX) Feb 15, 2010 The RQ-4 Global Hawk, Northrop Grumman premier unmanned reconnaissance aircraft system, continues its persistent watch over Haiti. To date, the Global Hawk has flown six missions, approximately 130 hours, and provided more than 3,600 images of Port-au-Prince and areas damaged by the massive earthquake and ensuing aftershocks that rocked the Caribbean nation earlier this year. "Thanks to Global Hawk's highly advanced sensors, which are capable of taking hundreds of images in a single mission, we've ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Feb 5, 2010South Korea said Friday it had deployed advanced weapons-tracking radar systems on islands near its disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea following last week's artillery barrages by the North. Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young told lawmakers the AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder systems had been set up on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands. "A few days ago, deployment of anti-artillery radar syste ... more  
London (AFP) Feb 5, 2010Defence giant BAE Systems agreed Friday to pay nearly 450 million dollars to settle anti-corruption charges brought by Britain's Serious Fraud Office and the US Department of Justice. The fines - 400 million dollars to the DoJ, and 30 million pounds (47 million dollars) to the SFO - relate to investigations into BAE deals with countries including Tanzania, the Czech Republic, Hungary and S ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2010In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America. NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, left NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif ... more |
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US probes missile test failure in Pacific: PentagonWashington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 The US military failed to shoot down a ballistic missile in a test resembling an Iranian or North Korean strike after a radar malfunctioned, a spokesman said on Monday. The test was carried out on Sunday at a US Army site at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands but the target missile was not intercepted as planned, said Rick Lehner, spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency. The ground-based interceptor was launched from Vandenberg Air Force base in California and performed "normally," but ... read more |
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