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Iran making new smart bombsTehran (UPI) Mar 3, 2009 With defense and acrimony building in the Persian Gulf, Iran announced plans to test a new laser-guided bomb. Iran's Fars News Agency reported that a prototype of the 2,000-pound smart bomb would be tested "in the near future," the country's air force commander Brig. Gen Hassan Shahsafi said. He said the smart bomb, dubbed Qassed-2, had a longer range and better vision than its earlier version, the Qassed-1. That weapon made its debut four years ago and has since then been in mass produc ... read more |
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Berlin (AFP) March 3, 2010NATO clients for the A400M military plane will meet Friday in Berlin as an agreement with EADS on financing Europe's biggest defence project edges closer, Germany's defence ministry said Wednesday. The seven NATO clients - Belgium, Britain, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Spain, Turkey - will consider the response from EADS to their "final" offer concerning the additional costs of the program ... more  
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 04, 2010Raytheon's Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) program has received approval from the U.S. Army for long-lead purchases, not to exceed $18 million, leading to low rate initial production. This approval is significant as it underscores the Army's confidence in the system and the capability it brings to the warfighter. This funding will accelerate the m ... more  
Brussels (AFP) March 3, 2010NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday that the western military alliance will debate the bloc's nuclear policy in Estonia next month. He said a "discussion" is planned after the foreign ministers of Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway requested "a major debate" on NATO's nuclear policy at their next gathering in Tallinn on April 22 and 23. Ho ... more |
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S.Korea urges N.Korea to drop hostile tacticsSeoul (AFP) March 3, 2010 South Korea's point man on North Korea Wednesday urged the communist state to drop its hard-line tactics, saying they would only undermine ties. "North Korea's hard-lined measures can no longer serve as (viable) strategies or tactics," Unification Minister Hyun In-Taek told an annual meeting of government officials and advocates of unification with the North. "Confrontation and discord will benefit neither the North nor the South," he said, adding South Korea would patiently expand cooperation w ... read more |
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