China Downplays Fears Over Military Spending
Beijing (AFP) Mar 07, 2006
China sought Tuesday to ease fears over its rising military budget as Taiwan claimed the threat from the mainland's armed forces was growing much stronger. "Our defense policy is transparent and our defense is entirely defensive in nature," Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told a press conference.
China Sends Warning To US Over Taiwan
Beijing (UPI) Mar 07, 2006
China's foreign minister Li Zhaoxing Tuesday touched on the Taiwan hot button and its capacity to sour bilateral trade relations with the United States. At the same time he downplayed Beijing's recent decision to boost defense spending.
Defywire Links War Fighters To Mission Data Via Mobile Devices Over Any Network
Washington (SPX) Mar 08, 2006
Defywire Mobile Military, a platform for the development and rapid deployment of wireless software applications, made its debut today to an audience of military and government technologists attending the 30th Annual FOSE Conference and Exhibition.
Human Factors Issues In Firearms Design And Training
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2006
Guns are tools. Like any other tools, they can be either good or poor at achieving their purpose. In an article published in the Winter 2005 issue of Ergonomics in Design entitled "Human Factors Issues in Firearms Design and Training," the authors look at the design and operation of firearms from a human factors perspective.
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India Says US Deal Won't Harm Nuclear Deterrent
New Delhi (AFP) Mar 07, 2006
The landmark India-US nuclear pact will not hurt India's nuclear deterrent capacity or its national interests, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament Tuesday."The integrity of our nuclear doctrine and our ability to maintain a minimum credible nuclear deterrent is adequately protected," Singh said
Iran Boosts Gulf Presence With Locally-Made Submarine
Tehran (AFP) Mar 07, 2006
Iran's armed forces have deployed a new locally-built submarine in Gulf waters, state television reported Tuesday. The vessel is named the Nahang, meaning whale, and was "built by specialists in the Iranian defence ministry and has the capability to carry multipurpose weapons for different missions", Rear Admiral Sajjad Kouchaki said.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Infiltrating Iraq: Rumsfeld
Washington (AFP) Mar 07, 2006
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran Tuesday of sending Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq, and warned Tehran it was "an error in judgement. They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq, and we know it, and it is something that they will look back on as having been an error in judgement."
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Japan, US To Jointly Test Missile Defence System This Week
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 07, 2006
Japan and the United States will test-fire an interceptor of their jointly developed next-generation shipborne missile system later this week, a Japanese defence official said Tuesday. The two allies are currently developing a new version of the US sea-based Standard Missile 3 (SM-3), amid growing concern about North Korea and rising tension between Japan and China.
Lockheed Martin Flight Tests Paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb
Archbald PA (SPX) Mar 08, 2006
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy conducted a series of successful flight tests at the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA, successfully releasing four GBU-12 (500-lb class) Paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bombs (DMLGB) from a single F/A-18 aircraft.
Outside View: US Army Terror Insight
Washington (UPI) Mar 07, 2006
If the Army's record against Navy in football has not been too encouraging in recent years, West Point has nonetheless scored a big upset in a contest that counts for rather more. West Point's Combating Terrorism Center has just published one of the most thoughtful and potentially most useful papers anyone has written on the so-called War on Terror.
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Taiwan Says It Now Faces Almost 800 Chinese Missiles
Taipei (AFP) Mar 07, 2006
China has now deployed almost 800 missiles which could paralyse Taiwan's communications and transportation and command centers in a 10-hour bombardment, the Taiwanese defence ministry said Tuesday. The ministry highlighted the mounting military threat, and declassified data on the 1996 missile crisis.
UM Engineers Pioneer Forensics Tech To Help Catch Cyber Crooks
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2006
Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering are creating new digital fingerprinting technology that could help protect Hollywood's assets and identify national security leak sources, all without impinging on legitimate uses.
Walker's World: China's Big Arms Budget
Washington (UPI) Mar 07, 2006
The strategic significance for Asia of the nuclear cooperation deal signed with India last week in New Delhi by U.S. President George W. Bush was underlined Saturday by the announcement that China's military budget for the coming year will rise by almost 15 percent. This is the 18th consecutive year of double-digit growth in China's defense budget.
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