March 10, 2009 Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense SpaceWar Advertising Kit
'Reckless' Chinese ships harassed Navy vessel: US
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009
Five Chinese vessels maneuvered dangerously close to a US Navy ship in the South China Sea on Sunday, closing within 25 feet of the unarmed surveillance ship, the Pentagon said. "This was a reckless, dangerous maneuver that was unprofessional" and violated international law, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters on Monday. The United States protested to Chinese author ... read more

Sadrist MP demands immediate US troop pullout
Baghdad (AFP) March 9, 2009
A senior MP from radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's party on Monday called for the immediate withdrawal of US troops, a day after plans for a major drawdown was announced. Iraq and the United States said on Sunday that 12,000 US troops will go home by the end of September in a first step toward completing a withdrawal by 2011 under an accord signed between Baghdad and Washington last ... more

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Commentary: Quo vadis America?
Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2009
CNN is watched the world over, and fear and worst-case scenarios are contagious. Fareed Zakaria's Sunday talk show "GPS" was doom and gloom on a global scale. Globalization is in retreat; capital flows are shrinking; a massive financial crisis, the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s, is on its way; Asian exports are down 30 percent to 40 percent; Eastern European states, the for ... more

CACI Awarded Contract To Support US Army FLIR Systems
Arlington VA (SPX) Mar 10, 2009
CACI International has announced that it has been awarded a new task order, totaling an estimated $40 million in value, under the U.S. Army's Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract vehicle. The contract, for one base year and two option years, supports the Army's Product Manager Forward Looking Infrared (PM FLIR) and Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). The award inc ... more

Britain grounding Nimrods for modifications after Afghan crash
London (AFP) March 9, 2009
Britain is to temporarily withdraw Nimrod spy planes from overseas operations to carry out safety modifications ordered after a deadly crash in Afghanistan, a government minister said Monday. Fourteen servicemen were killed in the 2006 crash, when their Nimrod exploded in mid-air shortly after refueling, in the British military's single biggest loss of life in a single incident for nearly 25 ... more

Crisis talks on Eurofighter orders Thursday: Berlin
Berlin (AFP) March 9, 2009
Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain will hold talks on Thursday on their orders for the Eurofighter combat aircraft, Berlin said Monday, after a newspaper said tight budgets would slash them in half. "We will be holding talks this week but there has been no mention of reducing deliveries by half," a spokesman for the defence ministry said, adding that, "for operational reasons, Germany still ... more

 

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    ENERGY NEWS
    'Hard to survive': Kyiv's elderly shiver after Russian attacks on power and heat
    Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Jan 28, 2026
    Shivering in her flat after Russian strikes knocked out the heating, 91-year-old Lidia Teleschuk said she couldn't remember a winter this harsh since World War II. ... more
    Zelensky seeks more air defence as Russia plunges Kyiv into cold
    Vilnius (AFP) Jan 25, 2026
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought more air defence support from allies on Sunday as hundreds of buildings in Kyiv were without heating in freezing temperatures for a second day after Russian strikes. ... more
    US to repeal the basis for its climate rules: What to know
    Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2026
    President Donald Trump's administration is finalizing its repeal of a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with an announcement expected in the coming weeks. ... more

    TECH SPACE
    Launching the idea of data centers in space
    San Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026
    Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. ... more
    Anthropic unveils new AI model as OpenAI rivalry heats up
    San Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 5, 2026
    Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI in the intensifying AI race. ... more
    Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in bid to build space data centers
    San Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026
    Elon Musk has announced that his rocket company SpaceX will take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI, as he seeks to raise billions of dollars for his science fiction-worthy outer space projects. ... more

    ROBO SPACE
    Reprogrammable metal bricks give robots muscle-like adaptability
    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
    Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept material system that allows solid Lego-like building blocks to be programmed with different mechanical properties and the ... more
    OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social media
    Washington, United States (AFP) Feb 2, 2026
    Meet OpenClaw: the AI assistant that promised to be your dream intern, terrified cybersecurity experts, and now thrives on chatbot-only social media - all in just a few weeks. ... more
    Human taught tactile control lets robots grasp diverse objects
    Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026
    When humans pick up everyday items such as fragile eggs or slippery metal cups, they instinctively adjust their grip using tactile feedback to avoid breaking or dropping them. In contrast, enabling ... more

     
    BAE Receives First Direct Contract For Tensylon Armor Panels
    Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 10, 2009
    BAE Systems has received a contract from the U.S. Army to supply Tensylon composite armor panels for the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) vehicles. HET vehicles transport, deploy, recover and evacuate combat-loaded main battle tanks and other heavy tracked and wheeled vehicles to and from the battlefield. Tensylon is a state-of-the-art material developed exclusively by BAE Systems t ... more

    US wants Canadian minister to head NATO: report
    Ottawa (AFP) March 9, 2009
    Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay expressed surprise Monday that the United States would reportedly promote him to European allies to become the next NATO chief. "That's breaking news to me," MacKay told a press conference. "I've never had discussions with (US) Vice President (Joe) Biden about this." Biden, according to The Washington Post newspaper, is to press European allies in ... more

    Analysis: The Afghan conundrum
    Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2009
    President Barack Obama told The New York Times, in an interview published Sunday, that he is willing to talk to the moderate elements of the Taliban in order to reach a negotiated end to the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, now in its eighth year and showing no end in sight. A question that was put to this correspondent Sunday in a television interview by a reporter following Obama's st ... more

    NKorea rhetoric a threat, not US-SKorea wargames: US
    Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009
    The United States said Monday that northeast Asia is threatened by North Korea's "bellicose rhetoric" rather by than the annual US-South Korean military maneuvers. The exercises "are not a threat to the North," acting State Department spokesman Robert Wood said when asked if Washington might be misreading Pyongyang. "What is a threat to the region is this bellicose rhetoric coming out of ... more

     

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