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China Deploys New Dong Feng ICBM Nuke Missile Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2006 
China's new Dong Feng-31, or CSS-9, road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile is expected to enter service during 2006, Jane's Intelligence reported on its Web site janes.com on June 9. The DF-31 is expected to be followed by the extended-range DF-31A version in 2007, the Web site said. It cited the 2006 edition of the U.S. Department of Defense's annual report on Chinese military capabilities. Both missiles will enter service with the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery.
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Japan Has No Knowledge Of Any Imminent North Korean Missile Launch
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 14, 2006Japan said Tuesday it had no indications to back up reports that North Korea plans an imminent test of a long-range missile like the one it fired over the country in 1998. "At the present moment, we have no knowledge of North Korea's imminent launch," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, the government spokesman. Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile Passes Key Test 
Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2006The Raytheon company announced June 5 that its Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles, or GEMs, destroyed two surrogate ballistic missile targets in a test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. US Cites Four Chinese Firms For Helping Iran WMDs 
Washington (AFP) Jun 14, 2006The United States Tuesday cited four Chinese companies and one US firm as "proliferators of weapons of mass destruction," for allegedly helping Iran's missile program. "The companies targeted today have supplied Iran's military and Iranian proliferators with missile-related and dual-use components," said Stuart Levey, US Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. |
BAE Systems Delivers F-22 Digital Electronic Warfare System
Nashua NH (SPX) Jun 14, 2006BAE Systems has delivered the first production digital electronic warfare system to Lockheed Martin for use in the U.S. Air Force's Raptor no. 4084. The airframe is well into production and slated for delivery to the Air Force in November 2006. F-22 Test Team Perform Supersonic High-Altitude JDAM Drop 
St Louis MO (SPX) Jun 14, 2006The U.S. Air Force F-22 Combined Test Force team of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Air Force pilots successfully demonstrated the F-22 Raptor's ability to release a munition at supersonic speed, high altitude and standoff range during a recent joint developmental and operational test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Boeing Flies EA-18G Wingtip and Jamming Pods 
St Louis MO (SPX) Jun 14, 2006The Boeing EA-18G program test team reached a key milestone May 30 when it flew a modified F/A-18F equipped with wingtip antenna and high- and low-band jamming pods for the first time. |
Iran Must Prove Nuclear Work Peaceful Say Nuclear Superpowers
Vienna (AFP) Jun 14, 2006The incentives deal offered by world powers to Iran last week stipulates that Tehran has to suspend uranium enrichment until its nuclear activities are proven to be peaceful, according to a copy of the confidential text shown to AFP Tuesday. DRS Tech To Supply Battlefield Digitization Systems To US Army 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Jun 14, 2006DRS Technologies has announced that it was awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) $396 million contract to provide rugged Applique Computer Systems and peripheral equipment for the U.S. Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2) program. Lockheed Martin Selects Symmetricom Oscillator For MUOS Satellite Program 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2006Symmetricom reports that the company was chosen to supply its master reference oscillator for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite led by Lockheed Martin for a U.S. Navy customer. |
Navy Selects LockMart For MK-54 Torpedoes High Altitude Launch Capability
Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 14, 2006The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a 12-month, $3 million contract for its High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapons Concept (HAAWC). The program will demonstrate delivery of the MK-54 lightweight torpedo from a P-3C aircraft operating at high altitudes (approximately 20,000) feet. Pennsylvania National Guard Gets Stryker Light Armored Vehicles 
Fort Indiantown Gap PA (AFNS) Jun 14, 2006The Pennsylvania National Guard's 56th Combat Stryker Brigade became the first National Guard unit to welcome the Stryker light armored vehicle to its fleet during a rollout ceremony at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., June 10. House Panel Backs 427 Billion Dollar Defense Budget 
Washington (AFP) Jun 14, 2006The House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved a 427-billion-dollar defense spending bill for the 2007 fiscal year, including some 50 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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