NKorea fires short-range missiles: Yonhap
Seoul (AFP) Oct 8, 2008
North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military drill, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said early Wednesday, quoting a defence source. The missile launch in waters adjoining China comes amid intense efforts to save a nuclear disarmament agreement which is in danger of collapsing because of a dispute over verification ... read more
iRobot Receives Order From TARDEC For iRobot Warrior 700
Bedford MA (SPX) Oct 08, 2008
iRobot has announced that the company has received a $3.75 million research and development contract from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), the nation's laboratory for advanced military automotive technology. Work under this contract will result in the delivery of two iRobot Warrior 700 platforms. A powerful and rugged robot, the ... more
Thompson Files: Don't scrap the TSAT
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Oct 7, 2008
Over the last eight years America's military has been transformed. Unfortunately, it has been transformed as much by the actions of the nation's adversaries as by the vision of change that President George W. Bush's Pentagon team advanced.
Who could have imagined on the day Bush was elected that his presidency would begin with the biggest terrorist attack in history? That the joint for ... more
Russia Defense Watch: Boosting war budgets
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2008
Russia, flush with wealth from its record-level oil and gas exports, is planning to further boost its defense spending by almost 50 percent over the next three years, a senior legislator in Moscow said last week. "According to a draft federal budget for 2009-2011, expenditure on national defense will increase in 2009 by 25.7 percent from 1.02 trillion rubles -- $40 billion ... more
US arms sales threaten peace in Taiwan Strait: China
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2008
China confirmed Tuesday it had curtailed military exchanges with the United States over a proposed US arms package to Taiwan, saying the plan was a threat to peace in the region. "It is US arms sales to Taiwan that disturb the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan strait," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told journalists. ... more
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Iran could spark Mideast nuclear arms race: British FM
London (AFP) Oct 7, 2008
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned Tuesday of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran was allowed to press ahead unchecked with a uranium enrichment programme. Speaking a day after Iran's nuclear negotiator protested over the West's attitude to Tehran's atomic programme, he said Britain was "very concerned" about Iran's refusal to be frank with the International Atomic ... more
German cabinet extends unpopular Afghan mandate
Berlin (AFP) Oct 7, 2008
Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved an extension of German participation in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan Tuesday and added 1,000 more soldiers to the mission, a government spokesman said. The decision will prolong the mandate for the deployment, which is highly unpopular in Germany, by 14 months until December 2009, and boost the maximum German troop level in the strife-wracked ... more
'Displeased' China still engaged in Iran, NKorea nuclear talks: US
Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2008
China will continue to take part in multilateral talks on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises despite the country's objections to US plans to sell arms to Taiwan, a US state department official said on Tuesday. A senior official from the department said on condition of anonymity that China would remain engaged in the six nation attempt to solve the North Korea standoff and the ... more
BMD Watch: BrahMos ALCM planned
Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2008
Flush with success on developing an air-launched supersonic cruise missile -- ALCM -- together, Russia and India have agreed to produce a more ambitious hypersonic one. Sivathanu Pillai, chief executive officer of the Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture, announced the project in New Delhi on Sept. 29.
"Today, at a meeting of the Russian-Indian ... more
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