Turkish cruise missile tipped for F-35
Ankara, Turkey (UPI) Oct 23, 2014 -
Lockheed Martin and Roketsan have agreed to collaborate on the Turkish company's stand-off cruise missile for use on the F-35 Lightning II fighter.
The SOM-J is an autonomous, long-range, low-observable, all-weather, precision air-to-surface cruise missile. A variant of the system has been designed for internal carriage on the F-35 aircraft.
The missile can also be carried extern ...
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BAE Systems Australia producing more missile decoy systems
Richmond, Australia (UPI) Oct 23, 2014 -
BAE Systems says it is producing more Nulka active missile decoys for the Royal Australian Navy and U.S. Navy ships.
The decoys are being produced under a follow-on order worth nearly $44 million. The order is the 16th consecutive order for the system and brings the total of Nulka decoys delivered by the company to more than 1,400.
"This contract continues our provision of the wo ...
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ESA spaceplane progressing towards Vega launch
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 23, 2014 -
Europe's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) spaceplane has completed another step in its pre-launch checkout process, and is now being readied for fueling ahead of the November 18 flight with Arianespace's lightweight Vega.
This activity - which included IXV's fit-check on the adapter that will serve as its interface with the Vega launcher - occurred inside the Spaceport's S1B clean r ...
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Russian Bank Offers 5 Billion Rubles for GLONASS
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 21, 2014 -
The Russian state development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) is set to offer financial support for domestic companies to develop projects using the GLONASS navigation system in Russia and abroad pending government approval, Izvestia reports.
VEB's sister fund -"VEB Innovations" will set up the "GLONASS Fund" within the fourth quarter of this year; funds will be made available by next February- ...
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Intelsat General To Study Commercialization of USAF Satellites
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2014 -
Intelsat General Corp. is one of four companies awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to study the viability of using commercial facilities and operations expertise for the tracking, telemetry and command (TT and C) of government satellites.
The goal of the contract, known as the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) Commercial Provisioning study, is to provide USAF Space C ...
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Aerostat surveillance system being evaluated by CBP
Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2014 -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is evaluating a Lockheed Martin aerostat surveillance system along the border with Mexico.
The system is the Persistent Threat Detection System, or PTDS, which is currently being used in Afghanistan by the U.S. Army for identifying threats and tracking insurgents.
Lockheed Martin said it is providing operational support for the system's evaluati ...
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US, China can tip balance in climate quest: study
Paris (AFP) Oct 21, 2014 -
The United States and China, the biggest greenhouse gas polluters, could reduce by a quarter the envisaged 2020 shortfall in emissions cuts required to curtail global warming, researchers said Tuesday.
If they move swiftly to achieve deep cuts in energy from high-carbon fuels like coal and oil, the two countries could reduce emissions by 2.8 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) f ...
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