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LM Tests Extended-Range Cruise Missile Orlando FL (SPX) May 23, 2006 
Lockheed Martin announced Monday it has successfully tested its extended-range JASSM system at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. JASSM is an air-to-surface standoff missile system and the world's first stealthy conventional cruise missile. Launched from a U.S. Air Force B-1B flying at Mach 0.80 at an altitude of 20,000 feet, the JASSM-ER separated from the bomber, deployed its wings and tail and started its engine, LM said in a statement.
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Peres warns of arms race if Iran acquires bomb
Jerusalem (AFP) May 22, 2006 A nuclear-armed Iran could inspire other regional heavyweights such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to acquire their own atomic weapons, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Monday. Dealing With Nuke Proliferation 
Tokyo (UPI) May 23, 2006U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns the world is at a crucial crossroads and fears instead of aiming for restricted nuclear proliferation. "It seems almost to be sleepwalking down" the path to where a "rapidly growing numbers of states feel the neeed to arm themselves with nuclear weapons," said Annan. India defence minister to visit Japan, China to discuss military ties 
New Delhi (AFP) May 22, 2006 India's defence minister will visit Japan and China this week to forge closer links on military cooperation including anti-terrorism, a defence ministry official said Monday. |
UAVs Could Patrol Australia's North West
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 23, 2006A Defence trial, using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Armidale Class patrol boat, will be conducted across Australia's North West Shelf region in September 2006, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, Senator Sandy Macdonald announced today. Bental Mini-UAVs Soar To The Top 
Kibbutz Merom Golan, Israel (SPX) May 23, 2006Bental Industries, Israel's Motion Systems House for defense and commercial applications, offers all the on-board and payload systems required by mini and micro UAVs. Blair Hails 'New Beginning' For Iraq 
London (UPI) May 23, 2006British Prime Minister Tony Blair called on insurgents in Iraq to lay down their arms and engage in the political process, during a visit to the country Monday. While he declined to set a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops, he and new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said they hoped Iraqi forces would be responsible for much of the country's "territorial security" by the end of 2006. |
Germany and China agree Iran should not have nuclear bomb: Merkel
Beijing (AFP) May 22, 2006 Germany and China agree that Iran should not be allowed to build nuclear weapons, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday after meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. "We talked about Iran and both agreed Iran should not have the capability to make nuclear weapons and shouldn't proliferate weapons of mass destruction," Merkel told a joint press conference with Wen. |
Singapore installing 100s more surveillance cameras
Singapore (AFP) May 22, 2006 Singapore will install hundreds more surveillance cameras on its streets, including around a central district where the World Bank and IMF meetings will be held in September, a report said Monday. Personal data stolen on millions of US veterans 
Washington (AFP) May 22, 2006 Personal electronic data on 26.5 million US military veterans and some spouses was stolen from the home of a government employee, the US Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday. |
US Senate Acts Wisely On Hayden
Washington (UPI) May 23, 2006The U.S. Senate has given the Bush administration an extended blank check on domestic electronic phone surveillance. As we predicted in these columns last week, the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on Gen. Michael Hayden focused on data mining from U.S. domestic phone records during his tenure as head of the National Security Agency. Bush Gets Border Mix Right 
Washington (UPI) May 23, 2006The bad news last week was that President Bush badly underestimated the number of troops he will need to enforce border security with Mexico. The good news was that he got the balance of border security and relations with Hispanic-Americans right. |
US says no better deal for NKorea
Singapore (AFP) May 22, 2006 North Korea will not get a better deal by staying away from six-nation negotiations aimed at getting the Stalinist state to end its nuclear program, the top US diplomat to the talks said Monday. US consults Europeans on anti-missile site 
Washington (AFP) May 22, 2006 The United States is consulting European allies about deploying missile defenses in Europe to thwart a Middle Eastern ballistic missile threat, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. The New York Times said the administration's proposal calls for installing 10 missile interceptors at a European site by 2011 to protect Europe and the US against missile attacks by Iran. |
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