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US, Poland sign modified missile shield dealKrakow, Poland (AFP) July 3, 2010 Poland and the United States on Saturday signed a deal on a future US anti-missile shield in Europe which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said would help ward off threats from Iran. "This is the first agreement that implements the US European-based Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) for ballistic missile defense and enables the stationing of a US land-based SM-3 missile defense interceptor system in the Republic of Poland," said a joint statement issued by Clinton and Poland's Foreign Minister Rados ... read more |
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German Radar Satellite TanDEM-X Launched Successfully
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2010Germany's second Earth observation satellite, TanDEM-X, was launched successfully on 21 June 2010 at 04:14 Central European Summer Time (CEST, at 08:14 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Atop a Russian Dnepr rocket, the satellite, weighing more than 1.3 tons and five metres in length, started its journey into orbit. At 4.45 CEST first signal was received via Troll grou ... more Radio Signals Research Scans New Horizons
Leicester, UK (SPX) Jun 23, 2010A study at the University of Leicester aims to understand the reasons why radio signals sometimes act unpredictably- travelling beyond the horizon and interfering with other signals. This is important because reliable radio signalling is not only economically beneficial, it is important in terms of safety. Now doctoral research by Naveed Mufti, from Peshawar, Pakistan, is examining t ... more Iran out, but Russia eyes Turkey for S-300
Moscow (UPI) Jun 21, 2010 Russia's arms export chief says Moscow hopes to sell Turkey the powerful S-300 air-defense missile system - and possibly the more advanced S-400 - after blocking delivery of the weapon to Iran. "The Turkish army has a great need to acquire S-300 and S-400 systems, Anatoly Isaikin, director of the state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport, told the RIA Novosti agency. Speaking a ... more |
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India test-fires Nag anti-tank missilesNew Delhi (UPI) Jun 17, 2010 India successfully test-fired an anti-tank Nag guided missile hitting a moving target in 3.2 seconds, the Defense Research and Development Organization said. Last week a similar Nag missile launched from a Namica tracked missile carrier destroyed a stationary object in 3 seconds at the army's firing range at Shamirpet near Hyderabad, the DRDO said. "The army wanted the capabilities of the missile to be tested while engaging a short-range target," the chief controller for research and dev ... read more |
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