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The Russian Air Force is testing a new missile for the S-400 Triumf air defense system, the Air Force commander said on Friday. The S-400 (SA-21 Growler) is designed to intercept and destroy airborne targets at a distance of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles), twice the range of the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot, and 2.5 times that of the S-300PMU-2. The system is expected to form the cornersto ... read more 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 1, 2009Pakistan and India exchanged lists Thursday of their nuclear installations under an accord aimed at protecting the sites in case of war, officials said, amid simmering tensions over the Mumbai attacks. The South Asian rivals, whose relations have been rocky since the deadly November attacks on India's financial centre Mumbai, have exchanged the lists annually since 1992, under an agreement ... more
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Baghdad (AFP) Jan 1, 2009With the dawn of the new year, the United Nations mandate on the presence of foreign troops in Iraq ran out and the embattled country took another step towards full sovereignty, more than five years after it was invaded by US-led forces. Here is a chronology of key dates in the process of the creation of an Iraqi state after the toppling of dictator Saddam Hussein in April 2003. ... more  
Gaza City (AFP) Jan 1, 2009Israel launched the New Year with fresh air strikes on Gaza that took the death toll from its blitz on Hamas to 400 as international efforts to secure a truce foundered. On the sixth day of Israel's biggest military operation against the Palestinian territory in decades, Hamas also fired rockets into Israel which said it carried out about 20 overnight air raids on the battered enclave. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao and US counterpart George W. Bush exchanged congratulations Thursday on the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties and vowed even closer relations, state media reported. Hu's message called the establishment of formal diplomatic ties on January 1, 1979, a key moment in world history and said China was eager to work with the United States in facing today's global chal ... more  
White Sands NM (SPX) Jan 02, 2009NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, completed the third guided test flight of the Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System's Precision Attack Missile. "The PAM missile, launched from a container launch unit, used the fire-and-forget uncooled imaging infrared seeker to score a direct hit against a stationary T-72 tank," said Scott Spe ... more |
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Fort Worth TX (SPX) Jan 02, 2009Lockheed Martin rolled out the first weight-optimized conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant of the F-35 Lightning II fighter on Dec. 19. The new F-35A, called AF-1, joins three weight-optimized F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing variants currently undergoing testing. The aircraft are structurally identical to the F-35s that will be delivered to armed services beginning in 2010. ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Jan 1, 2009North Korea Thursday lashed out at South Korea but dropped its customary criticism of the United States in a policy-setting New Year message which called for a stronger military and economy. The hardline communist state reaffirmed its commitment to denuclearisation and peace and had no harsh words for Washington, in the run-up to the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama. After a ... more  
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 1, 2009A suspected US missile strike on Thursday killed at least five Taliban militants in a tribal area in northwest Pakistan known as an extremist stronghold, local officials said. The strike was the latest targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan -- most said to have been launched by CIA drones -- that have raised tensions between Washington and Islamab ... more 
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 1, 2009Pakistan will reopen a key route for NATO supply trucks headed for Afghanistan in the next two days, an official said Thursday as troops pursued militants in the lawless northwest tribal zone. Security forces backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy artillery launched the operation on Tuesday to flush militants out of the area near Jamrud, the gateway to the famed Khyber Pass linking P ... more |
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