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Houston (UPI) Sep 4, 2008 An unpiloted Russian resupply spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station next week and the U.S. space agency plans to televise the event live. The Progress 30 spacecraft is to automatically dock to the aft port of the space station's Zvezda service module at 5:01 EDT on Sept. 12. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said its TV coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m ... more Defense Focus: Tanks still rock -- Part One 
Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2008 The striking success of even relatively small forces of Russian Main Battle Tanks in the five-day conflict with Georgia proves once again how crucial tanks remain to the conduct of modern war. Russia used a concentration of its state-of-the-art T-90 Main Battle Tanks, which also have been sold in large numbers -- 657 in all -- to India, backed up by significant numbers of older ... more Outside View: BMD blowback -- Part Two 
London (UPI) Sep 4, 2008 The U.S.-built Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors planned for Poland might be directed against "rogue states" such as North Korea and Iran, but no one pretends that the Patriot PAC-3 anti-ballistic missile interceptors that can shoot down short-range or intermediate-range ballistic missiles or the stationing of American troops in Poland are directed at any country other than Russia. ... more Russia to deploy weapons near Poland: lawmaker 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 4, 2008Russia will deploy high-precision weapons near Poland, following a US missile defence deal signed in Warsaw last month to host an anti-missile shield on Polish soil, a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday. "We have new weapons types" that will be "installed near regions in Poland" where Washington plans to base 10 interceptor missiles, said Viktor Zavarzin, head of the defence committee ... more Analysis: Turkey courts Turkmen energy 
Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 The implications of the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia continue to reverberate far beyond the two countries. The confrontation exposed the vulnerability of Western export routes of Azeri Caspian oil across Georgia into Turkey via the $3.6 billion, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The million-barrel-per-day BTC pipeline, the world's second-longest, began operations in May ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 Watch for possible tensions and dangerous taunting close encounters between Russia's Black Sea Fleet with U.S. and other NATO warships bringing relief or watching guard over the embattled former Soviet republic of Georgia. Adm. Eduard Baltin, a former Russian fleet commander, warned last week that all NATO and U.S. warships currently operating in the Black Sea could be sunk ... more Outside View: BMD dilemmas -- Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 Russia does not want to be dragged into another arms race, but it should not ignore the emerging threats. The Kremlin's most obvious reply to the U.S. missile defense deployment plans to build a Ground-based Mid-course Interceptor base in Poland would be to equip the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles of Russia's Strategic Missile Force with supersonic maneuverable warheads ... more Outside View: BMD blowback -- Part One 
London (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 The agreement concluded between the United States and Poland on Aug. 20 on the deployment of 10 interceptor missiles, part of America's planned Ballistic Missile Defense system, was an inadvertent -- and possibly unanticipated -- result of the Russian-Georgian conflict. After months of prevarication, the Poles stopped increasing the level of military aid they demanded in return for ... more Bulgaria launches construction of new nuclear plant 
Belene, Bulgaria (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev launched building work on Wednesday at the site for the country's new 4.0-billion-euro (5.8-billion-dollar) nuclear power station near the northern town of Belene. Construction of the plant's two reactors, being undertaken by Russian atomic energy specialist Atomstroiexport, will not begin until next year, but Stanishev oversaw the first holes being ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008After the breakup of the Soviet Union, many intellectuals in Russia and the West announced "the end of history." It seemed that the United States' complete domination of the world was not disputed by anyone. The subsequent decade, during which Russia lost its foreign policy positions, and its former satellites and even provinces became U.S. and NATO allies, seemed to have buttressed this ... more Outside View: Russia's war -- Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 Russia has completed its "peace enforcement" operation on the territory of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia. The country's political leaders and military commanders have announced that they are withdrawing troops from the conflict zone. It is still too soon to speak about an end to the conflict between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and the unrecognized republics of South ... more Russia Could Destroy NATO Ships In Black Sea Within 20 Minutes
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's naval strike group currently deployed in the sea within 20 minutes, a former fleet commander said on Friday. Russia's General Staff said on Tuesday there were 10 NATO ships in the Black Sea - three U.S. warships, the Polish frigate General Pulaski, the German frigate FGS Lubeck, and the Spanish guided missile frigate Admiral Juan de ... more Defense Focus: T-72s pack punch -- Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 The success of the Russian military operation in Georgia and the effective use of older weapons systems like the venerable T-72 there should remind Western political leaders and their advisers of several hoary old principles of war. First, obsolete weapons are as good as supposedly state-of-the-art ones when you have them and your opponent does not. Second, military power is ... more
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