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Missiles, Missiles Everywhere Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 27, 2006 
Looking at things from a broad perspective is often very useful. For example, consider the following: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov tells us that the country's armed forces will buy 17 intercontinental ballistic missiles next year; a reporter peers intently into a hole made in the pavement of an Israeli town by a rocket fired from a neighboring quarter; or two former U.S. defense secretaries say Tridents can be fired with non-nuclear warheads. All three examples share one common theme: rocket weapons. Anticipating possible objections, I will remark that today, from a practical point of view, there is little difference between strategic and tactical missiles.
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Raytheon HARM Variant Hits Target Without Radar Guidance
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 28, 2006Raytheon has demonstrated the enhanced navigation accuracy capability of a new variant of HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile). Called "HDAM" for HARM Destruction of enemy air defense Attack Module, the new variant adds INS/GPS (inertial navigation system/global positioning system) capability to the battle-proven HARM, greatly improving its effectiveness while significantly reducing collateral damage and the threat to friendly troops. India Says First Missile Intercept Test A Success 
Bhubaneswar (AFP) India, Nov 27, 2006India said Monday that its first test of a missile designed to intercept other missiles was a success, amid its ongoing efforts to develop a home-grown ballistic interception system. The test saw a surface-to-surface Prithvi-II (earth) missile shot down over the Bay of Bengal by a similar missile fired seconds later. The weapons were fired from the country's Chandipur-on-Sea and Wheeler Islands testing sites respectively... Aegis Missile Defense Fleet Tops 80 Ships 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Nov 28, 2006Lockheed Martin delivered the 100th Aegis Weapon System to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony in which Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen announced that the destroyer receiving the system will be named Wayne E. Meyer, after the retired rear admiral who is widely regarded as the "Father of Aegis." |
US Dominance Of Mideast Ends
Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2006U.S. dominance in the Middle East has ended, giving way to a new era in the modern history of the region amid growing anti-American sentiment. This is the conclusion of a study by Richard N. Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations in an article titled "The New Middle East" published in the November/December 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs. A Gangster State 
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 27, 2006Whatever the truth behind the bizarre murder by radiation poisoning of former Russian intelligence Col. Alexander Litvinenko, he has managed in death to tarnish the image of his country and its leaders. Russia now looks like a gangster state, led by a vindictive and ruthless thug. Yet most of the governments of the West shrug this aside and continue to do business as usual. A European Spy In al-Qaida 
Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2006A Muslim man who was a spy in the mid-1990s for several European intelligence services inside the global jihadi network that later became al-Qaida has written a memoir saying the agencies did not understand the nature of the threat it posed. "Inside the Jihad," written under the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, is an astonishingly detailed account of a young man's journey from the fringe of the Islamic extremist movement in Belgium to two terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. |
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Boeing Demonstrates UAV Automated Aerial Refueling Capability
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 28, 2006The Boeing Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) program successfully completed flight tests in August that demonstrated for the first time an unmanned air vehicle's ability to autonomously maintain a steady refueling station behind a tanker aircraft. "With autonomous air refueling capabilities, unmanned aircraft will have greater combat radius and loiter time," said David Riley, Boeing Phantom Works AAR program manager. Boeing Signs Contract For Korea's EX Airborne Early Warning And Control Program 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 28, 2006Boeing has announced the signing of a $1.59 billion contract to provide four 737 airborne early warning and control (AEW and C) systems for the Republic of Korea's EX program. The Boeing team's solution also includes ground support segments for flight and mission crew training, mission support and aircraft and system modification support. Protest At Top British Atomic Weapons Base As ICBM Renewal Looms 
London (AFP) Nov 27, 2006Hundreds of disarmament campaigners gathered at Britain's main atomic weapons base Monday to protest Prime Minister Tony Blair's desire to replace the nation's nuclear arsenal. Protestors outside the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in southern England accused Blair of hypocrisy and undermining international treaties by backing such plans while opposing Iran's nuclear program. |
An Iraq Exit Via Iran
Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2006The Iraq war, civil or not, is costing $226 million a day -- or $8 billion a month, $76 billion a year. Hard to figure out what to call it when Iraqis are killing Iraqis by the score every day and when the U.S. has been fighting and dying there longer than its involvement in World War II. Iraq also has a civil war within a civil war -- insurgency interspersed by sectarian warfare against a Shiite-led government. There are 23 armed militias in Baghdad alone. Saddam Hussein Cannot Be Hanged Or Pardoned 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 27, 2006Under Iraqi law, the term for enforcing the death penalty for former President Saddam Hussein expires on December 5. A number of human rights and public organizations have sent requests to the Iraqi government to remit the death penalty. Legally, only Iraqi President Jalal Talabani can pardon Saddam. But this would not be the right move because the former Iraqi leader does not deserve mercy. However, his execution may destabilize the situation in the Middle East. Moreover, the Iraqi court is not independent, and its sentence is dubious for this reason as well. Enter The Saudis 
Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2006The collapsing security situation in Iraq is producing a dramatic realignment of nations in the Middle East, with the United States is being pushed to protect Sunnis in Iraq against Shiites by an unlikely combination of its allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Elliot Abrams, the U.S. deputy national security adviser and one of the most influential policymakers in the Bush administration, is now energetically pushing boosted security cooperation with the Saudis, U.S. and Middle East intelligence sources have said. |
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