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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 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
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Jerusalem (AFP) July 13, 2009Britain 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  
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  
Seoul (AFP) July 13, 2009South 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 
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 |
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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  
Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) July 13, 2009Top 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 
Baghdad (AFP) July 13, 2009Seven 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 
London (AFP) July 13, 2009A 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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