LM DAGR Rockets Fired From Airborne AH-6 Little Bird Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 14, 2009 Lockheed Martin has launched DAGR rockets from an airborne AH-6 Little Bird helicopter and successfully hit the target in two separate trials. This is the second platform DAGR has fired from in the past few months-Lockheed Martin also fired DAGR rockets from the AH-64D Apache helicopter in March. In preparation for the tests, conducted at the Yuma Army Proving Ground in Arizona, Lockheed ... read more
India's nuclear-powered submarine ready New Delhi (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 If all goes as planned, India, according to various reports, will soon join the exclusive club of nations with their own domestically built nuclear-powered submarines, marking a giant leap for its naval defense.
More than 20 years in the making and until now known only as the Advanced Technology Vehicle project, the Indian navy's new nuclear-powered submarine named INS Chakra is ... more
Britain revokes five Israeli arms export licences: officials Jerusalem (AFP) July 13, 2009 Britain has revoked five Israeli arms export licences over the Gaza war, blocking the supply of replacement parts to navy gunships used in the offensive, officials and reports said on Monday. "The Foreign Office told the Israeli embassy in London last week that following a decision by parliament, Great Britain will stop the sale of certain arms" to Israel, a senior official told AFP on ... more
Greek police destroy Afghan migrant camp Patras, Greece (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 When Greek police bulldozed a makeshift migrant camp in the western port city of Patras Sunday, they highlighted one of the lesser known consequences of the conflict in Afghanistan. Most of the camp dwellers were Afghans. Many had paid several thousand dollars to people smugglers to get there.
The camp had been there for 13 years. Recently it housed as many as 1,800 refugees waiting to ... more
South Korea downgrades cyber attack alert Seoul (AFP) July 13, 2009 South Korea's intelligence agency Monday downgraded its alert against cyber attacks which had crippled numerous websites and in which North Korea was a suspect. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a statement that attacks were "fizzling out" and most of the targeted sites had normal traffic restored. South Korean and US government and private websites were last week hit by ... more
U.K. in market for new armored vehicles London (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 BAE Systems and General Dynamics are being asked to participate in a program that will result in a new series of armored reconnaissance vehicles for the British military. British Ministry of Defense officials last week announced they planned soon to send BAE Systems Global Combat Systems and General Dynamics U.K. invitations to tender for the vehicle project.
"This follows the ... more
Policies to expand US grid weigh cost reliability and emissions Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Growing energy demand means the U.S. will almost certainly have to expand its electricity grid in coming years. What's the best way to do this? A new study by MIT researchers examines legislation in ... more
EU agrees to weaken and delay green business rules Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 European governments and lawmakers agreed to weaken and delay new environmental and human rights rules Tuesday, clearing a key hurdle in a push to unpick EU regulations seen as too burdensome for businesses. ... more
Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language Models Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. ... more
Digital twin successfully launched and deployed into space Davis CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the futur ... more
AI advances robot navigation on the International Space Station Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks - all without an astronaut at the c ... more
Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand control Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set ... more
Walker's World: Paris vs. Berlin Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 The European Central Bank might by headed by a Frenchman, Jean-Claude Trichet, who used to run the Banque de France, but its headquarters is in Frankfurt, and its soul and its policies continue to be profoundly German.
This matters because one of the more serious disputes now affecting the European economies is the divergence between French policy, which fears unemployment and wants mor ... more
Top US commander holds talks in flashpoint Iraq city Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) July 13, 2009 Top US commander Admiral Mike Mullen made an unannounced trip to Iraq on Monday, visiting the ethnically divided northern oil city of Kirkuk for the second time in a year. Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, met representatives of the city's divided communities, provincial officials and senior Iraqi police commanders in the provincial government buildings. ... more
Seven US soldiers and translator wounded by Iraq bomb Baghdad (AFP) July 13, 2009 Seven US soldiers and their Iraqi translator were wounded by a bomb in the northern Iraqi town of Al-Sharqat, a US army spokesman said on Monday. The soldiers were on their way to their vehicles after meeting district officials in the town, about 300 kilometres (190 miles) north of Baghdad, when the bomb exploded at around 1:00 pm on Sunday. They were transported to a nearby US military ... more
Inquiry into Iraq death sees British soldiers 'abuse video' London (AFP) July 13, 2009 A public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi man in British custody was shown a video of a British soldier screaming at hooded prisoners on Monday. The first day of the wide-ranging inquiry in central London heard that Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist who died in Basra, southern Iraq, died after a "struggle" with two soldiers. Mousa sustained 93 injuries including a broken ... more
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Lockheed Martin has launched DAGR rockets from an airborne AH-6 Little Bird helicopter and successfully hit the target in two separate trials. This is the second platform DAGR has fired from in the past few months-Lockheed Martin also fired DAGR rockets from the AH-64D Apache helicopter in March. In preparation for the tests, conducted at the Yuma Army Proving Ground in Arizona, Lockheed ... read more
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 
