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GPS Operators Unveil New Early-Orbit, Anomaly Resolution System
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Oct 22, 2007Operators with the 2nd and 19th Space Operations Squadrons here assumed control of the newest GPS satellite minutes after its Oct. 17 launch using a new Launch, Anomaly resolution and Disposal Operations system, or LADO. The new, $65-million system means 2nd SOPS will take over satellite control authority on this and future GPS launches about two weeks more quickly than with previous satellites, ... more Cheney: Iran faces 'serious consequences' over nuclear drive 
Lansdowne, Virginia (AFP) Oct 21, 2007Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the United States would not permit Iran to get nuclear weapons and warned of "serious consequences" if it refuses to stop enriching uranium. Cheney, considered the US administration's toughest hardliner on Iran, did not mention the possibility of military action amid reports that President George W. Bush could be laying the stage for war with the Islami ... more USAF Relieves Commanders Involved In Nuclear Weapons Incident 
Washington (AFNS) Oct 22, 2007The Air Force has relieved three commanders and disciplined an undisclosed number of others in connection with an Aug. 29 "Bent Spear" incident in which nuclear-equipped missiles were unknowingly transported nearly 1,500 miles on the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber. "Bent Spear" is a Defense Department reporting term referring to a nuclear-weapons incident that is serious but does not inclu ... more Russia Announces Successful Topol Ballistic Missile Test 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 22, 2007Russia has successfully test-fired an RS-12 Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk space center, a spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces announced on Thursday. The RS-12 (NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle) has been in service since 1988. It is a road-mobile single-warhead ICBM, similar in size and shape to the U.S. Minuteman ICBM. "A mock warhead hit a designated ta ... more NKorea envoy in Syria amid nuclear talk 
Damascus (AFP) Oct 21, 2007A top North Korean official held talks in Syria on Sunday, amid reports -- strongly denied by both countries -- that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri met Choe Thae-Bok, chairman of communist North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly and discussed efforts to boost relations between the two nations, the official SANA news agency ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Oct 21, 2007Taiwan is to develop a non-lethal graphite bomb designed to disable rival China's power supplies, it was reported Sunday. Should war break out, the so-called "blackout bombs" would be carried by Hsiungfeng 2E cruise missiles to paralyse the power systems of China's southeastern coastal cities, the United Daily News said. The bombs work by sprinkling a cloud of chemically treated carbon f ... more US Air Cavalry Crews See Higher-Tech Attacks And Weapons from Iran 
Washington (AFNS) Oct 22, 2007Air cavalry helicopter pilots have had to change their tactics to adapt to newer and higher-tech surface-to-air missile systems that officials believe are coming in from Iran, a senior official in Iraq said today. Crews from 1st Air Cavalry Brigade out of Camp Taji, Iraq, have flown support for operations in and around Baghdad for more than a year. Since their arrival, there has been an increase ... more US DoD Contracts For 2,400 More MRAP Vehicles 
Washington (AFNS) Oct 22, 2007The Defense Department has let contracts for an additional 2,400 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, bringing the total number of the vehicles ordered to 8,800. "We're going to do everything we can to get as many vehicles in theater as fast as we can," a senior Pentagon official, speaking on background, said yesterday. The MRAP is designed to survive blasts from improvised explosive ... more Putin boast of 'grandiose' military plans no cause for alarm: Gates 
Washington (AFP) Oct 18, 2007President Vladimir Putin's boast of "grandiose" Russian military plans, including a new nuclear weapon, were "an assertion that Russia is back" but not a cause for alarm, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Russia has used oil revenues to steadily increase the pace of its military modernization over the past couple of years, said Gates, who visited Moscow last week. ... more Olmert Wants To Know All About Ahmadinejad 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 22, 2007On Thursday, October 18, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid a brief visit to Russia. He was the first high-ranking overseas politician to meet with Vladimir Putin after the Russian president's visit to Iran. The aim was to discuss the Russian-Iranian negotiations, although Middle East settlement and bilateral cooperation were also on the agenda as all these issues are closely interconnected ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 19, 2007The Pentagon acknowledged Friday an unprecedented breakdown in procedures that allowed six nuclear missiles to mistakenly end up on a cross-country flight, an incident which took 36 hours to be discovered. "Nothing like this has ever occurred," said Major General Richard Newton. "This was a failure to follow procedures, procedures that have proven to be sound." ... more Pakistan at tipping point after Bhutto attack: analysts 
Karachi (AFP) Oct 21, 2007The bloodbath at Benazir Bhutto's homecoming has pushed nuclear-armed Pakistan to crisis point, both politically and in its US-backed battle against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, analysts said. Her carnage-strewn return from exile deepened the faultlines that threaten the Islamic republic of 160 million people, which has lurched from one existential threat to another in its six decades of indepe ... more Gates meets Turkey's defence chief amid Iraq incursion fears 
Kiev (AFP) Oct 21, 2007US Defence Secretary Robert Gates held talks here Sunday with his Turkish counterpart as tension mounted between the two nations over Ankara's plans for possible attacks on Kurdish rebels in Iraq. Gates urged Turkey to obtain precise information on the location of the separatist rebels before launching any military incursion into northern Iraq. "The key is to develop intelligence to enab ... more Pentagon announces Iraq deployments 
Washington (AFP) Oct 19, 2007Seven army national guard brigades with 18,000 troops were alerted Friday to prepare for deployment to Iraq as replacement forces beginning next August, a Pentagon spokesman said. Two of the brigades will replace army active duty combat brigades now in Iraq, said spokesman Bryan Whitman. He said four other brigades will replace about 160 smaller units that currently protect bases and roa ... more No evidence Iran arming Taliban: Afghan foreign minister 
Herat, Afghanistan (AFP) Oct 19, 2007Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta said Friday there was no evidence that Iran was supplying weapons to Taliban militants waging a violent insurgency. Spanta's comments came after the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Dan McNeill, said Thursday a convoy of explosives intercepted last month had arrived from Iran and probably with the knowledge of the Iranian military. ... more
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