Outside View: Putin's China Strategy
Moscow (UPI) Mar 20, 2006
Sino-Russian relations must be built "on new mentality," said Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Liu Guchang at a recent on-line conference held by RosBusinessConsulting. It was devoted to the forthcoming official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing, where he will open the "Year of Russia in China."
BMD Focus: Quality Control Works
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2006
The senior executives who run Boeing's ballistic missile defense interceptor program made a revealing admission last week: They talked about the basic and disciplined engineering approach with which, they say, they are getting it back on track.
Boeing Completes Successful Autonomous Flight Control Technology Program
St Louis MO (SPX) Mar 20, 2006
Boeing and a team of university scientists have completed a highly successful multi-year research program to develop and demonstrate cutting edge flight control technologies that dramatically enhance the autonomous operations of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Bush Predicts 'Victory' Three Years After Iraq Invasion
Washington (AFP) Mar 20, 2006
Three years after invading Iraq, President George W. Bush said Sunday he had a strategy for "victory in Iraq" while administration officials denied that the country had sunk into civil war.
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DRS Tech: Advanced Intelligence Equipment
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2006
DRS Technologies has announced that it has received orders with a combined value of approximately $22 million to provide advanced intelligence equipment supporting all installation types used in the collection of communications intelligence (COMINT) and signal intelligence (SIGINT) data.
Firing Success For Defender Air Defence System
Shdema Test Range, Israel (SPX) Mar 20, 2006
On 28 February 2006, Thales and Rafael achieved another milestone in the DEFENDER system integration venture. The DEFENDER successfully fired the BARAK missile at Shdema Test Range in the south of Israel. This latest achievement follows previous exten-sive integration testing and dry runs.
First UK-Built Sentinel R Mk 1 Aircraft Departs For US
Broughton, UK (SPX) Mar 20, 2006
The first Sentinel R Mk I aircraft to have been completed in the UK has today left Raytheon's Broughton facility in North Wales for Greenville, Texas, where it will join the US built aircraft to undertake formal flight testing. The UK aircraft will return in late spring to undertake further flight trials in the UK.
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Iran Reformists Urge Nuclear Freeze
Tehran (AFP) Mar 20, 2006
Iran's largest reformist party called on Sunday for dialogue with the United States and a freeze on sensitive nuclear work to head off an escalating crisis with the international community.
Operation Swarmer Is More Hype
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Mar 20, 2006
Operation Swarmer, a joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive around the northern Iraqi city of Samarra in Salaheddine province, went into its fourth day Sunday with very little to verify why it has been described as the largest assault operation since the American-led invasion of Iraq three years ago.
Outside View: A Matter Of Trust
Damascus, Syria (UPI) Mar 20, 2006
The only time President Bush spoke of India and Pakistan as equals is when he urged leaders of both countries to "resolve the issue between themselves." The issue being Kashmir, an unresolved dispute left behind by the British occupation. In all other matters, Bush found them to be different: "two different countries, with different needs, and different history."
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Australia And Japan To Increase Counter-Terror Cooperation
Sydney (AFP) Mar 20, 2006
Australia and Japan on Saturday agreed to strengthen their joint efforts to stamp out terrorism and build their strategic relationship, according to a statement released following a meeting of foreign ministers.
Preemption Remains US Policy Option
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2006
The Bush administration rolled out its long-overdue paper on national security strategy Thursday. The study demolished the assessments by many recent analysts that the administration was starting to take a more cautious approach to international security challenges and was growing increasingly averse to the use of force.
Transparency Goes Global
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2006
In a shrinking global environment, international transparency guidelines are laid by a United States which itself is almost beginning to fail to draw an accurate line between necessary and unnecessary secrets, say global transparency coordinators.
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