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North Korea Missile Fueled For Launch Washington (AFP) Jun 20, 2006 
North Korea has finished fueling a long-range missile, moving a key step closer to a test launch, The New York Times reported late Sunday. US officials concluded that North Korea had completed the fueling of the Taepodong 2 missile believed capable of reaching the United States after examining satellite images, the Times wrote on its website.
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North Korea Plays A New Missile Card
Seoul (UPI) Jun 20, 2006Will North Korea launch a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the continental United States at grave cost? Or is the missile threat another card to win concessions from the United States as its nuclear program has failed to attract U.S. attention? North Korea Stirs Jitters With Missile Launch Boast 
Seoul (AFP) Jun 20, 2006North Korea rang alarm bells Monday by boasting about its missile programme, saying a launch in 1998 "powerfully" demonstrated the might of its socialist regime. Amid fears that the Stalinist state is preparing to fire an even bigger missile, Pyongyang said the 1998 launch was proof of the wise guidance of Kim Jong-Il. Patriot Destroys Drone In Second Straight Test 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jun 20, 2006Raytheon's Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile scored a second consecutive successful test flight as a GEM-T missile destroyed a surrogate cruise missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., the company announced Monday. |
Raytheon's Enhanced Paveway II Remains Right on Target in Danish Tests
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 20, 2006Raytheon's Enhanced Paveway II precision guided weapon demonstrated its continued reliability by successfully hitting intended targets in a recent series of tests by the Royal Danish air force. Globemaster Airdrops Falcon Small Launch Vehicle 
Edwards AFB CA (AFNS) Jun 20, 2006A C-17 Globemaster III performed the second in a series of tests June 14 by airdropping a 65-foot, 65,000-pound mockup of a booster rocket over Edwards Precision Impact Range Area. French Army And MoD Experiment Network-Enabled Operations 
London, UK (SPX) Jun 20, 2006The Transformation and Integration Centre (TIC), a distributed battlelabing environment between Thales' different sites in France and multi-domestic countries was made available to the French MoD last March to experiment the contribution of a battlelab to study future Network Enabled Capabilities. |
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Iran Prepares Nuclear Counter Proposal
Tehran (AFP) Jun 20, 2006Iran said Monday it was preparing a counter-offer as officials rejected a key stipulation in a proposal by world powers for the Islamic republic to halt uranium enrichment ahead of nuclear talks. US Policy Becoming Confused Over Iran Says Russia 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 20, 2006Things are getting curiouser and curiouser in the United States as encouraging news comes from Tehran in response to the latest six-party nuclear offer. US And Russian Nuclear Weapons Deal Extended 
Washington (AFP) Jun 20, 2006The United States and Russia have extended the US-funded program that pays for the dismantling of weapons of mass destruction inherited by Russia from the former Soviet Union, the White House said Monday. |
Raytheon Wins Contract On ISIS UAV Project
Rome NY (AFNS) Jun 20, 2006The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $7,996,471 contract to Raytheon Systems, Co., of El Segundo, Calif., for a surveillance sensor program. Saudi Secret To Success In War 
Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2006Ever since a group of 19 terrorists struck at the heart of America on Sept. 11, 2001, Saudi Arabia, from where 15 of the 19 hijackers originated, suddenly found itself on the front lines of the war on terror. And for the most part it was largely unprepared. Deteriorating Realities In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2006The long cable about the stark realities of life in Baghdad from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalizad reproduced in the Washington Post Sunday should serve as a corrective to the wave of renewed optimism that has swept Washington about the Iraq war over the past few weeks. |
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