China and Japan resume maritime talks: Xinhua
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 -
China and Japan have resumed talks on maritime affairs, Chinese state media said Wednesday, a tentative sign that frosty relations may be beginning to thaw.
Yi Xianliang, deputy director-general of the foreign ministry's Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, met in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao Tuesday and Wednesday with his Japanese counterpart Makita Shimokawa, the official Xinhu ...
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Fury glide bomb dropped from Shadow UAS
Quantico, Va. (UPI) Sep 24, 2014 -
Small precision glide bombs have been successfully dropped from a small unmanned aircraft system at the Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona.
In two live-fire demonstrations, the Fury weapons from Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems and partner Thales UK engaged and destroyed their targets.
The demonstrations were the first using a Shadow 200 UAS, which is 11.2 feet long an ...
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Will Obama's Arab coalition stay the course?
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 -
US President Barack Obama has pulled off a diplomatic coup, knitting together a coalition of Arab nations with differing agendas to strike jihadists, but experts question its long-term staying power.
In his speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, Obama warned the battle against extremism would be a multi-faceted "generational task - and a task for the people of the Middle East themselves ...
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Oshkosh passes review in competition to replace the Humvee
Oshkosh, Wis. (UPI) Sep 24, 2014 -
Oshkosh Defense has successfully completed the U.S. government's Production Readiness Review in the competition to replace the U.S. military's Humvee.
The review, part of the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the competition, included a review of Oshkosh's manufacturing readiness, quality management system and production planning capabilities to meet scheduling, perform ...
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'World is united' in fighting IS: Obama
Damascus (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 -
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that air strikes the United States and its Arab allies unleashed against the Islamic State group in Syria send a clear message that the world is united in confronting the jihadists.
Dozens of IS and Al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the raids, which Washington said had partly targeted extremists plotting an "imminent attack" against the West. ...
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Poland needs nuclear arms to ward off Russia: Walesa
Warsaw (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 -
Polish anti-communist icon Lech Walesa said Poland should procure nuclear weapons as a safeguard against Russia, which it blames for stoking the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine.
"Poland needs to stand up to Russia," the Nobel Peace laureate, who spearheaded Poland's democracy movement and became its first post-communist president, said in an interview published Wednesday.
EU and NATO me ...
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New test equipment due for Minuteman III guidance system
Ogden, Utah (UPI) Sep 24, 2014 -
Equipment that tests the guidance system of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is to be updated by Boeing.
Boeing said the work will be conducted on the guidance data acquisition system, or GDAS, under a U.S. Air Force contract worth $4.9 million.
"As national programs unfold that are critical to affordably sustaining and modernizing Minuteman III until 2030 and b ...
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