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Russia Key To BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile Part Three
Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2008The Russians are freely sharing with India the full secrets of one of their proudest, most cherished and crucial military technologies with India -- supersonic cruise missiles that fly at Mach 2.8 -- apparently confident it will not leak to the United States. And they have flatly refused to contemplate any similar co-production of these BrahMos series of cruise missiles with China. ... more India awards Russia billion dollar MiG-29 upgrade 
New Delhi (AFP) March 10, 2008India has awarded Russia a 965-million-dollar contract to upgrade its multi-role MiG-29 warplanes, officials said on Monday. The two post-Cold War allies Saturday signed the deal to extend the life of India's fleet of 70 MiG-29 jets another 15 years from their current 25 years, an air force official said. "The project entails two to three years and only six of them would be re-fitted in ... more Merkel against NATO membership for Georgia, Ukraine 
Berlin (AFP) March 10, 2008German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled on Monday that she opposes granting NATO membership to former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia. "A country should become a NATO member not only when its temporary political leadership is in favour but when a significant percentage of the population supports membership," Merkel said in Berlin in reference to Ukraine and Georgia. ... more The Tunguska Meteorite As A Warning From Outer Space 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008Almost a century ago, on June 17 (30), 1908, a massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, in what is now Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, Central Siberia. The residents of the Vanavara trading post, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the blast site, later claimed that the ground trembled violently when attacked by a huge ball of fire, followed by a terrible storm that ... more BrahMos-2 Production Plans Lay Ground Work For Indian Cruise Missile 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2007The rapid development of the BrahMos joint Indian-Russian supersonic cruise missile project documents important and usually overlooked truths about the triangular Russian-U.S.-Indian strategic relationship. First - despite all the optimism of the Bush administration and all its efforts over the past seven years - India remains fundamentally allied to Russia rather than the United States ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Mar 07, 2008Yesterday, members of the media visited ESA-ESTEC, the agency's European Research and Technology Centre, to see and learn about GIOVE-B, the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite, before it is packed for shipping to the launch site. GIOVE-B has successfully completed its test campaign and will depart from ESTEC on 11 March. The spacecraft will be flown to Baikonur, in Kazakhstan ... more Russia To Launch US Communications Satellite On March 15 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 07, 2008A Russian Proton-M rocket will launch a U.S. communication satellite on March 15, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Thursday. The launch will be carried out under a contract between the Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services and the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center. ILS, owned by the Khrunichev Center, RSC Energia, and U.S. firm Space ... more Russian GLONASS GPS Plans 2008 Part Two 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 05, 2008To be honest, anyone familiar with Russian roads would hesitate before seriously talking about the commercial success of the Global Navigation Satellite System. National security is an entirely different story because the Russian armed forces require their own navigation systems that would not depend on Global Positioning System providers. However, airlines all over the world, including ... more Iran Set For Showdown On Multiple Fronts 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 06, 2008Moscow has warned Iran that sanctions will become inevitable if it does not comply with the previous resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, which urged it to stop all work on uranium enrichment. Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin made this serious warning at a video news conference for the Russian media. He pointed out that if Iran does not observe these ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed caution Wednesday on the hopes of Georgia and Ukraine moving closer towards membership of NATO, ahead of alliance talks on their aspiration. Speaking to reporters travelling with her to Brussels, Rice underlined that NATO "is a consensus organisation", and that its 26 member nations must decide unanimously when it comes to admitting new partner ... more New Method to Estimate Sea Ice Thickness 
Anchorage AK (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Scientists recently developed a new modeling approach to estimate sea ice thickness. This is the only model based entirely on historical observations. The model was developed by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Using this new technique, the thickness of Arctic sea ice was estimated from 1982 to 2003. Results showed that average ice this ... more Reality Glooms High Over Russian GLONASS GPS Plans Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 04, 2008The development of Russia's high-tech sector, primarily the national space program, resembles a Camel Trophy race, while official reports do not always reflect the real situation. In late February, Anatoly Perminov, director of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) told the respected Novosti Kosmonavtiki magazine he positively assessed the results of Russia's space exploration in ... more Siberian Shepherd Seeks A Million Rubles Over Rocket Fragment Fall 
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 05, 2008A shepherd in Russia's southwestern Siberian Altai Republic is to seek over $40,000 in damages from the Russian space agency Roscosmos over a fragment of rocket that fell into his yard on February 5. "Boris Urmatov [the shepherd] is preparing to file a lawsuit demanding compensation to the sum of about 1 million rubles [over $40,000]," a local administration official told RIA Novosti. ... more
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