Missile Defense

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• Obama Missile Defense Plan Clears Hurdle

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  From Global Security Newswire: WASHINGTON -- Despite Republican denunciations of President Obamas decision to revamp plans for missile defenses in Europe, the Senate last week quietly offered its formal acceptance of his shift to the near-term deployment of a sea-based system to protect the continent from the ...
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• Critics call Poland Patriot missile plan a symbolic gesture, U.S. military newspaper reports

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 632
  Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — An article in the U.S. semi-official military newspaper Stars and Stripes suggests that the Obama administration’s plan for placing a limited number Patriot missiles in Poland has no military significance and is being implemented largely for diplomatic reasons to appease Warsaw
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• The morning coffee and the dirty childen

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 131
  I think that this Pikachu ski mask might be the most frightening thing I have ever seen. Which may mean that I need one. (Photo by Tech. Sergeant Russell E. Cooley IV ) This morning, a new blog has been stumbled upon. Called My Parents Were Awesome , it endeavours to catch your parents, my parents, ...
  6 days ago

• Applied Nanotech Selected to Receive Funding for the Remediation of Tin Whiskers (Marketwire)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwire - November 23, 2009) - Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. ( OTCBB : APNT ) announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (”MDA”) to receive an award of approximately $500,000 for the development of non-contact methods for mitigation of tin whiskers from electronic ...
  1 week ago

• Applied Nanotech Selected to Receive Funding for the Remediation of Tin Whiskers (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwire - 11/23/09) - Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC.BB: APNT - News ) announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (”MDA”) to receive an award of approximately $500,000 for the development of non-contact methods for mitigation of tin whiskers from electronic ...
  1 week ago

• Boeing Laser Systems Destroy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Tests — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  Boeing Laser Systems Destroy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Tests ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 18, 2009 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] in May demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to perform a unique mission: track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). During the U.S. Air Force-sponsored ...
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• Boeing laser systems destroy unmanned aerial vehicles in tests

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 438
  The Boeing Company in May demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to perform a unique mission: track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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• MDA Announces Successful Tests

  
  33 Minutes — Authority: 122
  The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced that the MDA and the U.S. Pacific Fleet successfully completed a series of exercises that tested the second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, which tracked and simulated engagements of ballistic missile targets. The targets were launched over several ...
  1 week ago

• Lockheed And Raytheon To Gain With New Sea Based Focus On Missile Defense

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  The change in focus by the Obama Administration in missile defense away from the ground based to sea based means a different set of companies will...
  1 week ago

• Iran warns it may produce S-300 system

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Increasingly irate over a delayed arms deal, Iran has threatened to manufacture an advanced missile system itself if Russia does not deliver it to Tehran soon. The warning, sounded by Alaeddin Bouroujerdi, a senior Iranian lawmaker, was the latest in a series of threats by Iranian officials angered at Russia for ...
  2 weeks ago

• START Talks: Russian Demands Undermine Nuclear Balance

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  On November 12, General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, said that Russia was seeking to overcome “a range of problems” in the negotiations on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) follow-on treaty. The Treaty will replace the current 1991 START Treaty that expires on December 5. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Air Force General Recommends Limiting Missile Defense to Appease Chinese

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 531
  Here is what one Air Force General has to say about the developing missile defense network in the Pacific: The man at the pointy end of the spear of missile defense and of nuclear weapons warned today that the US must carefully weigh any increase in missile defense — particularly on the west coast — to avoid ...
  2 weeks ago

• Required Reading: Naval War College Review Articles on China’s DF-21/ASBM

  
  Steeljaw Scribe — Authority: 489
  A few of us  ( here   and over at Galrahn ’s site ) have been banging the drum for the last few years re. the potential threat posed by China’s ASBM (Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile) which appears to be a variant of the DF-21 (itself, an apparent derivative of the Pershing II MRBM).  There has been limited ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indias Akash missile gets another order

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  The Indian army is set to order an unspecified number of Akash anti-aircraft missiles to replace its aging Russian SAM-6 Kvadrat air defense missile system. The missile system is for the T-72 main battle tank and has a Hyderabad-developed Rajendra phased-array radar capable of tracking up to 64 aircraft simultaneously ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iran calls on Russia to fulfill missile sales deal

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Russia should honor a contract to sell a missile defense system to Iran and not bend to outside pressure, the Islamic Republics defense minister said in remarks published on Thursday. Russia, which is under Western pressure to distance itself from Iran, has not followed through on proposals to supply high-grade S-300 ...
  2 weeks ago

• North Korean Reaction to US-Japan Missile Defense Test

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 531
  Just for a good laugh I bring you North Korea’s Central News Agency report on the recent test firing of an AEGIS SM-3 missile between the US and Japan: Recently the U.S. forces test-fired SM-3 together with the Japan Maritime “Self-Defence Force” in the sea off Hawaii under the pretext of coping with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• In 1999, Dobbs Covered Los Alamos Chinese Espionage Story Better Than the Nets

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 836
  As noted earlier today (at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ), yesterdays resignation from CNN by Lou Dobbs was his second during a storied career there. The first was at least partially driven by clear tensions between Dobbs and CNN head Rick Kaplan, a longtime friend of former president Bill Clinton who arrived at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morning Bell: Keeping Up Our End of the Bargain With Those Who Serve

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  Today, we at The Heritage Foundation will honor Veterans Day by pausing to remember those who sacrifice in defense of freedom for our country. Heritage honors all who serve past and present in the United States Armed Forces, their families, and all military retirees and veterans. We solemnly remember those fallen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israel To Provide Naval SAMS to India

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  It is reported that the Indian Government is planning on signing a deal with Israel to provide Barak naval Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMS). The reported contract is worth over $1 billion . Israel has long made efforts to export its indigenous arms in order to facilitate their development and lower the cost to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Remembering the Berlin Wall: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  On Feb. 13, 1985, I stood in the Theaterplatz in Dresden listening to Erich Honecker give a speech.  The speech was not simply one of those standard commie stemwinders to which those of us reporting from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were accustomed.  For one thing, we were gathered outside the newly ...
  3 weeks ago

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