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Iran Claims New Stealth Drone That Can Attack US Gulf Fleet Tehran (AFP) Feb 10, 2007 
Iran said on Saturday it has started mass producing and using a stealth drone with a range of 700 kilometres (420 miles) that it claims is undetectable to radars. "We have built a drone with a more than 700-kilometre range which can collect information and shoot films," the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, told Iran's Arabic-language satellite news channel Al-Alam. "The material and the shape of this drone make it undetectable for radars, so it can not be targeted," he added. "The drone has passed its experimental phase and it is being mass produced, and we are currently using it in our operations," Rahim Safavi, said without giving more details.
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Putin Stuns With Attack On US
Munich (AFP) Feb 11, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked the United States as a reckless "unipolar" power that has made the world more dangerous by pursuing policies that have led to war, ruin and insecurity. Putin stunned an audience that included US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and senior US and European officials with the speech Saturday at a high-level security conference in Munich. US Does Not Want New Cold War 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 11, 2007US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday deflected a stinging broadside against the United States by Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring: "One Cold War was quite enough." The new US defence chief used wry humour in his debut speech to an international security conference to deflate Putin's portrayal of the United States before the same audience as a dangerous, destabilizing world power. China Says Anti Satellite Test Did Not Break Rules 
Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 12, 2007The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that China's recent outer space test was not in violation of any international rules. "The experiment was not directed at any country nor did it pose any threat to any country," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu. She reiterated that China is opposed to the weaponization of outer space or an arms race. |
Race Begins For Richest Military Deal Ever In India
Bangalore (AFP) Feb 11, 2007India's biggest air show has set the clock ticking for the subcontinent's richest military contract: an order for 126 fighter planes potentially worth nine billion dollars. Interim Polar System Reaches Full Operational Capability 
Los Angeles AFB CA (AFNS) Feb 11, 2007Air Force officials announced Feb. 6 the successful launch and delivery for operational service of the second Interim Polar System payload. With this placement of the second of three planned IPS payloads, the extremely high frequency constellation is at full operational capability, providing 24-hour EHF communications coverage of the northern polar region. North Korea Nuclear Talks To Wrap Up Amid Energy Aid Row 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2007Six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear arms drive will wrap up on Monday after being held up by the communist state's excessive demands for energy aid, the top US negotiator said. The six nations "really concurred that tomorrow will be the last day," Christopher Hill told reporters in Beijing on Sunday. He was speaking at the end of the fourth day of the latest round of the talks, fuelled by North Korea's first ever nuclear test in October. |
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Russia Protests US Missile Shield But Vows To Avoid Arms Race
Seville (AFP) Feb 9, 2007Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov protested Friday against US plans to set up a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic and vowed that Moscow would take steps to counter it. Speaking after talks with NATO defence ministers, he raised doubts about the purpose of the US plan and said that if Washington were serious it should base missile interceptors closer to perceived threats such as Iran and North Korea. Top Cleric Says US Within Firing Range 
Tehran (AFP) Feb 9, 2007A top Iranian cleric said Friday the United States was within Iran's "firing range", a day after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to hit back at US interests worldwide if attacked. "Americans have surrounded us but it works to our advantage. Iranian Ready To Resume Talks But Set To Announce New Technologies 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 11, 2007Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Sunday the Islamic republic was prepared to return to negotiations to seek an agreement over its nuclear programme. "The political will of Iran is aimed at a negotiated settlement of the case. We don't want to aggravate the situation in the region," Larijani said in a speech to a high-level security conference here. |
Fighting Three Wars At Once In Iraq
Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007"One war at a time," U.S. President Abraham Lincoln famously said when dismissing a proposal to risk war with the British Empire, the most powerful nation on earth, when he already had his hands full waging the U.S. Civil War. But as the United States heads for a full-scale confrontation with Iran, it risks fighting three separate wars simultaneously in the same theater of operations. The Murky World Of Contracting In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007The business of private contracting in the Iraq war came under scrutiny this week. And U.S. government officials responsible for oversight have been largely in the dark. Raytheon Delivers Early Missile-Warning Sensors For US Space Watch 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2007Raytheon has delivered the second of two advanced infrared sensor payloads to Northrop Grumman Space Technology for the missile-warning Space Tracking and Surveillance System Block 6 program. Block 6 R and D satellites will demonstrate the key functions of a space-based sensor within the Ballistic Missile Defense System, passing missile tracking data to missile defense interceptors with the accuracy and timeliness necessary to enable them to successfully intercept missile targets. |
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