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US Restores Full Diplomatic Relations With Libya
Washington (AFNS) May 16, 2006Three years after Libya renounced terrorism and abandoned its program to acquire weapons of mass destruction, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Monday that the United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with the North African country and soon will open an embassy in Tripoli. ICBM Advanced Rocket Motor Aces Test 
Clearfield UT (SPX) May 16, 2006Northrop Grumman announced Monday it has successfully completed a static test firing of a Minuteman III ICBM technology-demonstrator motor. The test firing - conducted May 2 at a facility at Edwards Air Force Base, California - was a joint effort by Northrop Grumman and its principal teammate Alliant Tech Systems. Chavez Issues Warning Over Oil And Iran 
London (UPI) May 16, 2006Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the flamboyant foe of the U.S. administration, Monday warned that military action against Iran would send oil prices rocketing and destabilize the entire world. |
Solving The Iran Crisis Russian Style
Moscow (UPI) May 16, 2006It is important to keep in mind several facts when analyzing the debates on the Iranian nuclear file in the United Nations Security Council on May 9. To start with, on April 28 the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, presented a new report on the Iranian nuclear program. Alternate Fuel-Powered B-52 To Fly In September 
Washington (AFNS) May 16, 2006This year, the Air Force will test fly a B-52 Stratofortress that is powered in part by fuel derived from natural gas. The experiment is part of the Department of Defense's Assured Fuel Initiative, an effort to develop secure domestic sources for the military's energy needs. EADS And ASB To Create Of US Thermal Battery Company For The Military 
Munich, Germany (SPX) May 16, 2006EADS and Saft America have combined their expertise in the field of thermal batteries via ASB to form the new subsidiary Advanced Thermal Batteries Inc. Located in Cockeysville, Maryland. |
UK And Oz PMs Knew There Were No WMDs
Washington (UPI) May 16, 2006A former U.N. biological weapons specialist is asserting that the prime ministers of Australia and Britain knew at the time that pre-war intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was false. State Intel Too Independent - Part 2 
Washington (UPI) May 15, 2006The State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau has a history of angering conservatives. And that has led some of the small but widely respected intelligence bureau's defenders to fear that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may use her planned restructuring reforms as an excuse to purge it. India's longest-range missile ready for test launch 
New Delhi, (AFP) May 14, 2006 India's longest-range ballistic missile is ready for a test launch, the country's top military scientist announced Sunday. "We are technically ready for the test-firing of the missile," M. Natarajan, scientific advisor to the defence ministry, announced at an official function in New Delhi which was also attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
Anger Over Wiretaps Builds Against Hayden
Washington (UPI) May 16, 2006The upcoming Senate confirmation battle over Gen. Michael Hayden's selection as the next CIA director could destroy the best hope of putting the troubled agency back on track. Transportation Command Transforming To Meet Warfighters Needs 
Washington DC (AFNS) May 16, 2006Working under a new mandate, U.S. Transportation Command is transforming how it moves people, weapons and supplies to support the global war on terrorism, the command's senior enlisted advisor said here yesterday. Boeing Future Combat System Demonstrates Progress And Technology Maturity 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 15, 2006The US Army's Future Combat System program, managed by the Lead Systems Integrator team of Boeing and SAIC, successfully demonstrated networking and systems capabilities in the first of two major field experiments scheduled for 2006. |
Raptors To Bring Air Superiority To NE 2006
Hickam AFB (AFPN) May 16, 2006The Air Force�s newest fighter, the F-22A Raptor, will make its Pacific-region debut in exercise Northern Edge 2006 in June when 12 F-22As from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base participate in this joint training exercise. Orbital Awarded Contract for Definition of Hybrid Launch Vehicle Architectures 
Dulles VA (SPX) May 15, 2006Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a research and development contract by the U.S. Air Force for the Hybrid Launch Vehicle (HLV) Studies and Analysis Program. |
Global Hawk Completes Wet Runway Test
Edwards AFB CA (AFNS) May 16, 2006The Global Vigilance Combined Test Force's 452nd Flight Test Squadron achieved an important milestone by completing wet runway taxi testing on the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle May 3. This was the first ever wet runway testing performed on an unmanned aircraft. VMU-2 Mechs Maintain Unmanned Aircraft 
Al Taqaddum, Iraq (AFNS) May 16, 2006Echoes of wrenches turning and metal scraping together sound throughout the hangar bay, as the mechanics pull the engine off of an RQ-2B Pioneer unmanned aerial vehicle at Al Taqaddum, Iraq, May 2. |
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