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August 18, 2008
Moscow Reverts To Cold War Moves Just As NASA Plans To Buy Russian Soyuz Services; Cause Of Soyuz Woes Still Unknown Russia Cuts Oil Flow To Czech Republic, But Denies This Retaliates For Czech Agreement To Host Missile Defense Radar Russia...
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August 18, 2008
After months of negotiations, Poland signed an agreement allowing the United States to install ballistic missile interceptors in silos in Poland. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk disclosed the agreement in an interview on a news channel, TVN24, a deal with a...
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August 18, 2008
Poll Results Come As Congress Weighs Financing For U.S. Missile Defense Programs A lopsided 87 percent of the American public supports creation of the multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense shield being developed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3665.html
August 18, 2008
Bush Warns Russian Military Not To Block Americans Bush Hints Russia May Be Kicked Out Of G-8 For Its Persistent Aggression In Georgia President Bush announced he is sending U.S. armed forces to Georgia with humanitarian aid for the embattled nation, and...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3666.html
August 18, 2008
Russia Fires Dozens Of Missiles Into Georgia Russian Use Of Missiles Enhances Their Value In Eyes Of Rogue States And Terrorist Groups As Russia invaded the Republic of Georgia, it fired more than two dozen SS-21 ballistic short range missiles into the former...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3667.html
August 18, 2008
U.S. Air Force Launches Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile The U.S. Air Force launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with three unarmed multiple independent reentry vehicles on a trajectory of 4,220 nautical miles to...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3672.html
August 15, 2008
BAE Systems announced it has received additional orders from the Defense Department of Defense for 43 M777 lightweight towed howitzers, worth a total of $85.6 million, not including DoD-supplied components. The M777 is the world's first artillery system to...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3645.html
August 15, 2008
QinetiQ recently said it received a 33-month, $22 million follow-on contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue the Large Area Coverage Optical Search While Track and Engage (LACOSTE) program. The LACOSTE concept is to...
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August 15, 2008
Exercise Fuerzas Aliades PANAMAX 2008 involves military and civilian forces from 20 nations to increase multinational interoperability and support training requirements to ensure rapid crisis response and provide threat protection to the strategically vital...
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August 15, 2008
The Canadian government plans to add helicopters for airlift capacity and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. The measures were announced Aug. 5 by Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic...
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August 15, 2008
Alliant Techsystems [ATK], the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force this month successfully completed another missile firing of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, the company said yesterday...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3649.html
August 15, 2008
BAE Systems said it has received additional orders from the Defense Department of Defense for 43 M777 lightweight towed howitzers, worth a total of $85.6 million, not including DoD-supplied components. The M777 is the world's first artillery system to...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3650.html
August 14, 2008
Exercise Fuerzas Aliades PANAMAX 2008 involves military and civilian forces from 20 nations to increase multinational interoperability and support training requirements to ensure rapid crisis response and provide threat protection to the strategically vital...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3642.html
August 13, 2008
QinetiQ yesterday said it received a 33-month, $22 million follow-on contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue the Large Area Coverage Optical Search While Track and Engage (LACOSTE) program. The LACOSTE concept is to...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3628.html
August 11, 2008
The Canadian government plans to add helicopters for airlift capacity and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. The measures were announced Aug. 5 by Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3600.html
August 11, 2008
Bush Says North Korea Won't Come Off State Sponsor Of Terrorism List Or Axis Of Evil List Until It Takes Further Action But Bush Praises Destruction Of Reactor President Bush said he is concerned by North Korean ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs...
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August 11, 2008
Classified Information Disclosed On JASSM Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will pay a $4 million civil penalty for unauthorized actions the company took to sell Hellfire missiles to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), under a consent agreement with the State...
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August 11, 2008
Armed forces across the globe will spend $30.6 billion to acquire 95 military satellites over the next 10 years, according to a projection by Forecast International (FI), a Newtown, Conn., firm. The majority of this bonanza will come from the Pentagon...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3608.html
August 11, 2008
Iran has an anti-ship missile with a 190-mile range that could be used to close the Strait of Hormuz and threaten shipping traffic in the Persian Gulf, according to statements by Brig. Gen. Hossein Alayee, a former Iranian deputy defense minister, reported...
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August 11, 2008
Military strikes on illicit Iranian nuclear materials production sites likely wouldn't destroy them, according to a new report by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington think tank. The United States is concerned that nuclear...
http://www.ddn.com/sectors/international/3611.html

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