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S.Korea starts live-fire drills amid tensions with NorthSeoul (AFP) Dec 6, 2010 South Korea's military began a major live-fire exercise Monday amid high tensions on the divided peninsula following North Korea's deadly bombardment of a border island last month. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the five-day series of drills would take place in 29 locations off South Korea, despite the North's claims that it could trigger war. It was unclear whether one of the firing drills - near the flashpoint disputed Yellow Sea border - had begun as earlier announced. YTN televi ... read more |
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  WikiLeaks faces donations blow as it fights for survival WikiLeaks faced a fresh threat to its survival on Saturday as the online payment service PayPal cut off the account used for donations to the whistle-blowing website. ... more | .. |
 US, key Asian allies to forge strategy on NKorea The United States will host high-level talks on Monday with allies South Korea and Japan to forge a strategy for dealing with a volatile nuclear-armed North Korea amid allied shows of military force. ... more | .. |
  New Advanced Combat Radar Flies On F-16 Raytheon's Advanced Combat Radar, the latest Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, has successfully completed a series of flight trials on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif ... more | .. |
  Boeing Marks Retirement Of RAAF F-111 Fleet Boeing will bid a fond farewell to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F-111 strike fighters that the company has supported for more than 14 years when the fleet is retired on Dec. 3. As pri ... more |
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 US Army Awards Delivery Order For Common Sensor Payload Raytheon has been awarded a $42.9 million delivery order for 57 Common Sensor Payload electro-optical and infrared sensor systems. The order is part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Army in Novembe ... more | .. |
 Picatinny Invention Gives Soldiers 80 Degrees Of Firepower An invention developed by Team Picatinny was recently named a top 10 Army Greatest Invention of 2009. The Objective Weapon Elevation Kit, or OWEK, allows Soldiers to engage super-elevated targets, a ... more | .. |
  First European Missile Successfully Carries Out Ballistic Intercept MBDA is celebrating the total success of an Aster missile firing carried out on 18th October 2010 by the DGA EM (Direction Generale de l'Armement - Essais de Missiles) in the Landes region of France ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Delivers 500th Digital Radar Warning Receiver To US Navy Raytheon has achieved a production milestone with the 500th delivery of its ALR-67(V)3 digital radar warning receiver to the U.S. Navy. The ALR-67(V)3 is the U.S. Navy standard for digital rad ... more |
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  British-Trained Afghan Soldiers Start To Take Over IED Fight An Afghan National Army (ANA) bomb disposal team, trained by British forces, has put its skills into practice for the first time, safely disposing of two deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs) i ... more | .. |
  US Navy Destroyers Join Abraham Lincoln Strike Group Guided-missile destroyers USS Momsen (DDG 92), USS Halsey (DDG 97) and USS Shoup (DDG 86) entered the 5th Fleet area of responsibility Nov. 25, rejoining USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as part of thei ... more | .. |
 Saab Receives Order For Additional Anti-Tank Weapon AT4CS Defence and security company Saab has received an order from the French Defence Forces through Dga (Direction generale de l'armement) for additional Light Anti-Tank Weapon AT4CS. The order val ... more | .. |
 Last Harrier Jet Launch From HMS Ark Royal Harrier GR9 jets took off from HMS Ark Royal for the very last time, before both Joint Force Harrier and the Royal Navy's flagship are decommissioned next month. The iconic jets launched from the de ... more |
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 Phalanx Weapon System Completes Live-Fire Demonstration Raytheon and Oshkosh, partnering with the U.S. Army and Navy, proved the maneuverability, integration and performance of the Mobile Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System during a recent live-fire demonst ... more | .. |
  Critical Global Hawk Sensor Delivered To USAF Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered the first production Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor to Edwards Air Force Base for integration on the first U.S. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon To Relocate Patriot Training To Fort Sill Raytheon will relocate its Patriot New Equipment Training program to Fort Sill, Okla., beginning early next year. The move is in response to the U.S. Army's Base Realignment and Closure decisi ... more | .. |
  US suspected Yemen had portable missiles: cables US officials suspected Yemen had stocks of shoulder-fired missiles, a major concern if they fell in the wrong hands, while the Yemeni leader sought to use newfound leverage for US aid, secret memos said. ... more |
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 GCC leaders to hold summit under cloud of exposed Iran fears Gulf Arab leaders are to hold a summit on Monday with their fears exposed over Iran's nuclear ambitions, courtesy of WikiLeaks, and at a time of economic relief thanks to higher oil prices. ... more | .. |
  Iraq's Sunnis eye Kurdish-style autonomy Iraq's Sunnis, many of them angry that their favoured political bloc failed to win the premier's post in a power-sharing deal, are increasingly turning to the concept of forming an autonomous region. ... more | .. |
 Obama: US-S.Korean alliance 'stronger than ever' The US-South Korean alliance is "stronger than ever," President Barack Obama said Saturday in the wake a deadly North Korean assault on its southern neighbor. ... more | .. |
 US envoy says Iran 'dominant player' in Iraq politics: cable Tehran is a "dominant player" in Iraq using "all means of diplomacy, intelligence and economy" to get a pro-Iranian regime there, leaked US diplomatic cables published by Le Monde newspaper Sunday said. ... more |
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 France prepared to give Brazil fighter jet's hi-tech: cables France is prepared to give Brazil vital hi-tech codes for its Rafale fighter jets if the South American nation buys them, leaked US diplomatic cables published by Le Monde newspaper on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Top Iranian negotiator arrives in Geneva for nuclear talks Iran's chief negotiator Saed Jalili arrived in Geneva on Sunday ahead of talks on the country's nuclear programme with the EU's top diplomat Catherine Ashton and six world powers, Iranian media said. ... more | .. |
Brazil favored US in fighter deal: cable Brazil leaned in July towards a US bid on a multi-billion-dollar tender for new fighter jets but wanted to gain new technology allowing it to one day make its own, a leaked cable said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Iraqi school for Roma is basic, but gives hope It might look modest, but the tent that acts as a class room and the car that doubles as an office are, for the Roma who attend lessons there, the first school of its kind in Iraqi Kurdistan. ... more |
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