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Study says US missile defense weapons deeply flawedWashington (AFP) May 18, 2010 US missile defense plans are based on "technical myths" and interceptors have mostly failed to knock out incoming warheads in military tests, a new study argues. Two American scientists reviewed 10 tests of the SM-3 "kill vehicle," designed to take out ballistic missiles, and concluded that the interceptor succeeded in directly hitting mock warheads in only one or two cases. "This means that, in real combat, the warhead would have not been destroyed but would have continued toward the target and ... read more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) May 06, 2010UA meteorite curator Marvin Killgore has a 300-gram piece of the object that exploded over Wisconsin in April. People in southwestern Wisconsin and northern Iowa on April 14 witnessed a sonic boom and a fireball that briefly - and spectacularly - lit up the late evening sky. It was the result of an ancient rock that ended its 4.5 billion year journey through the solar system in a ball of f ... more  
Paris (UPI) May 5, 2010 Negotiations between France and the United Arab Emirates on Dassault Aviation's Rafale fighter jet are taking longer than expected but Paris hopes to strike an agreement by the end of this year. A French official familiar with the negotiations told Defensenews.com that an agreement struck this year would mean that next-generation Rafale jets could be delivered by 2014. This so-ca ... more  
RAAF Base Williamtown, Australia (SPX) May 06, 2010Boeing has announced that the Commonwealth of Australia has accepted the first two Project Wedgetail 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW and C) aircraft into the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fleet. The aircraft were accepted during a ceremony at RAAF Base Williamtown, the main operating base for the Wedgetail fleet. "This major milestone demonstrates that the 737 AEW and ... more |
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TanDEM-X Certified Ready For SpaceBonn, Germany (SPX) May 03, 2010 The construction of the German radar satellite TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) is complete and the satellite has been qualified for space operations during a series of tests conducted at IABG in Ottobrunn, near Munich. As with its 'twin' satellite TerraSAR-X, the TanDEM-X project has been implemented as a public-private partnership (PPP) between the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and Friedrichshafen-based Astrium GmbH. ... read more |
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