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China To Display Military Might At Air Show Zhuhai, China (AFP) Oct 31, 2006 
China will use a major air show to display its military might, just weeks after North Korea launched its first nuclear test, organisers said Monday. State-owned weapons manufacturer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) said it would exhibit a record number of missiles and fighter jets at Airshow China on Tuesday. The display will demonstrate "the advanced capability and level of Chinese missile weapon systems to safeguard its territorial air, sea and land," CASIC said in a statement. The move follows North Korea's declaration on October 9 that it had conducted its first nuclear test, which led to sanctions being imposed by the UN Security Council.
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First Stealth Fighter Retires After 25 Years Service
Holloman AFB NM (AFNS) Oct 31, 2006After 25 years of storied service, the F-117 Nighthawk, the Air Force's first stealth fighter, is about to retire. The technology that once made it a unique weapon system has now caught up to it and newer fighter aircraft are now joining the fleet. Still, the Nighthawk was the first of its kind, a fact anyone who has spent time around the aircraft is quick to point out. DRS Receives $12M Order To Produce Precision Targeting Systems 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Oct 27, 2006DRS Technologies has announced that it has received a $12 million order to produce Knight Precision Targeting Systems, mission equipment electronic units, cupolas and cables, and integrate the complete vehicle packages into more than 60 U.S. Army M1117 Armored Security Vehicles. The order was received by DRS from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command. North Korea Launched Five Missiles 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2006North Korea launched five short-range missiles during military exercises last week, a news report said Monday. The missiles presumably had ranges between 10 and 50 kilometers (six and 30 miles), said Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest circulation newspaper, quoting an unnamed official. "North Korea last week fired five ground-to-air and air-to-groud missiles from its west training range," the official told Chosun. South Korea's defense ministry declined to comment on the report. The official said the launch seemed part of annual military training but that it was "rare" for North Korea to fire as many as five missiles. |
US General Predicts Second NKorea Nuclear Test
Seoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2006The head of US forces in South Korea on Monday predicted North Korea will stage a second nuclear test, as experts said the Stalinist regime's security threat should not overshadow "crimes against humanity" by its rulers. "I can only surmise that since they've tested one, that some time in the future we're going to get another test of a nuclear device," General B.B. Bell said. China Wants Closer Defense Ties With SE Asia 
Nanning, China (AFP) Oct 31, 2006China said Monday it wanted to expand military ties with Southeast Asia as it pledged to continue efforts to hammer out a code of conduct for handling territorial disputes in the South China Sea. At a one-day summit with leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for greater cooperation between China and ASEAN on defense issues. Taiwan President Calls For Deterrent Against China Military Threat 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 31, 2006Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Monday underlined his belief that the country must rapidly develop its military capability to combat the growing threat from China. Speaking to Japanese politicians and scholars in Tokyo via video conference, Chen said: "History shows that any peace agreement without the backing of a strong national defense force would eventually turn out to be empty words. Such agreements could be scrapped easily by invaders." |
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Major Boost For Armed Forces Communications Infrastructure
Corsham UK (SPX) Oct 27, 2006Inteq has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Corsham Development Project, part of a programme costing approximately 800M pound, that will rebuild, refurbish and manage state-of-the-art communication facilities at Corsham in Wiltshire, Defence Minister, Derek Twigg MP, announced today. New Airdrop System Offers More Precision From Higher Altitudes 
Southwest Asia (SPX) Oct 30, 2006A new, self-steering airdrop system that's being field tested in Afghanistan represents a revolutionary step beyond traditional delivery methods, the commander of U.S. Central Command Air Forces told a group visiting the command headquarters here during the past weekend. For security reasons, officials requested the base's exact location not be revealed. German Cabinet Adopts New Defence Policy Manifesto 
Berlin (AFP) Oct 25, 2006The German cabinet on Wednesday approved new defence policy outlines that pave the way for the country to play a bigger role in international peacekeeping missions, Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said. "The white paper sets out our perspectives for the future at a time when Germany prepares to take over the presidency of both the European Union and the G8" group of industrialised nations in 2007, Jung told reporters. |
Impacts Of An Iraqi Partition
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2006An American victory in Iraq would entail the establishment of a stable regime that does not develop Weapons of Mass Destruction, support terrorism, export radical Islamism, seek the destruction of Israel or tilt the balance of power toward now-ascendant Iran. For the past three-and-a-half years, Washington has been acting as if the only way to achieve these ends is to establish a unified constitutional democracy in Iraq. Urban Terrorist Memories 
Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2006When the commander in chief decided it was time to take back Baghdad from the terrorists, past reminders about the pitfalls of urban guerrilla warfare were dismissed as N/A. The average length of a post-World War II insurgency: seven years. At the height of the terrorist campaign against Unionist loyalists and the British Army in northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army never had more than 300 guerrillas in the field. This small number kept half the British Army pinned down for 30 years. Alienating Maliki 
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2006Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is biting the hand that feeds him -- but he knows what he's doing. On Wednesday, an angry Maliki outspokenly rejected comments made only the day before by top U.S. diplomatic and military officials in Iraq that he had to come up with a timetable or time-line setting dates to disarm Iraq's powerful and ferociously warring militias. The calls to do so came from Zalmay Khalizad, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad and from Gen. George Casey, commander of U.S. military forces in Iraq. |
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