News About Ballistic Missile Defense 21-MAY-08 en-us Washington (UPI) May 20, 2008 - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk last Tuesday publicly dismissed U.S. efforts to close a deal on the base by mid-July as merely a negotiating tactic, the German Deutsche Welle network reported May 13. India has taken another giant stride toward the strategic nuclear parity it seeks with China.]]> ]]> Moscow (UPI) May 20, 2008 - Thirty years ago, on May 15, 1978, a missile defense system was placed on combat duty to protect Moscow as the capital of the Soviet Union. ]]> Washington (UPI) May 20, 2008 - It's not exactly a surprise, but it's important news anyway. Russia's new President Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to maintain the top-priority modernization of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces designed to be able to swamp America's ballistic missile defense systems.]]> Sunnyvale CA (SPX) May 21, 2008 - Lockheed Martin has announced that its team has completed an important milestone for a key element of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) payload by successfully calibrating an operational pathfinder seeker for the carrier vehicle at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah.]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) May 16, 2008 - The Japanese Parliament Tuesday formally agreed to permit the deployment of space surveillance satellites as part of the country's ballistic missile defense program.]]> Warsaw (AFP) May 13, 2008 - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday said Washington's offers to boost his nation's security in exchange for hosting a controversial US missile shield were unsatisfactory.]]> Washington (UPI) May 9, 2008 - The Cabinet Committee of the main chamber of the Japanese Parliament, or Diet, Friday approved legislation that would allow Japan to deploy military systems in space for defensive purposes. The legislation will now move forward for consideration by the whole lower chamber, but given the majority still enjoyed there by Fukuda's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, it is expected to be quickly approved, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported. The long and complicated negotiations about congressional funding for the two proposed U.S. ballistic missile defense bases in Central Europe took a another twist Wednesday when the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Democrat-controlled Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives voted to curt nearly a third of the funds that the Bush administration had requested for the program.]]> ]]> Prague (AFP) May 11, 2008 - Neither the Czech Republic nor the United States have made provisions for permanent Russian inspectors at their joint anti-missile radar project, a junior government minister said Sunday.]]> Washington (UPI) May 6, 2008 - Several years ago, not long after Poland and the Czech Republic had been admitted to NATO, prominent Polish politician and intellectual and later Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorsky warned a conservative Washington audience the pro-American sentiments they had enjoyed in the decade and more since the collapse of communism in 1989-91 would only last a few more years.]]> Vienna (AFP) May 6, 2008 - Washington is "optimistic" that it will be able to reach a deal with Poland over US plans to base a missile shield there, a senior US arms control official told reporters here on Tuesday.]]> SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE
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]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) May 2, 2008 - Bush wants to build a base in Poland with 10 Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors that could hit and destroy any nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles fired by Iran or other "rogue" states against the United States or Central Europe. A companion base containing advanced radar arrays to guide the GBIs on to their intended target is to be built in the neighboring Czech Republic. Lockheed Martin said Wednesday it had completed a vital integrated test milestone on its first Space-Based Infrared System geo-synchronous orbit spacecraft.]]> Moscow (UPI) May 5, 2008 - On May 2, the foreign ministers of Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany met in London to discuss a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear problem. ]]> Prague (AFP) May 5, 2008 - NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday the alliance supports the installation of an American radar base in the Czech Republic as well as a missile shield for its allies.]]> Advertise in Space War and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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