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Russia's Glonass System To Comprise 30 Satellites By 2011
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2008The number of satellites comprising Russia's Glonass navigation system will be increased from the current 16 to 30 by 2011, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Friday. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), which is designed for both military and civilian use, and allows users to identify ... more US rearming Georgia under guise of aid: Medvedev 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 6, 2008The United States is rearming Georgia under the guise of humanitarian assistance, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev charged on Saturday, following the arrival in Georgia of US warships laden with aid. "The rearming of the Georgian regime is continuing, including under the guise of humanitarian assistance. They've sent a whole fleet to provide humanitarian assistance," Medvedev told officials ... more The Power Of Armour In The Early 21st Century 
Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 The central role played by Russian tanks in occupying one-third of Georgia in only five days teaches a very sobering lesson: The major wars of the 21st century will be a lot more like World War II than most fashionable pundits and military theorists have dreamed. Therefore the for-so-long out-of-fashion artillery, infantry and armor specialists in the U.S. Army and the handful of ... more US may scrap Russia nuclear cooperation next week: official 
Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2008The United States will likely scrap a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact next week in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia, a US official said Friday. "It's probably going to happen next week," the State Department official told reporters when asked about the issue. "The president (George W. Bush) has to withdraw the document from Congress. So he needs to take that step, and ... more Japan defence report warns on Russia 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2008An increasingly assertive Russia is staging more frequent military drills near Japan, including with nuclear submarines, the defence ministry here warned in a report Friday. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet approved the annual "white paper" on defence policy, which also reiterated Japan's longstanding unease about China's rapid military buildup and the threat of North Korea. ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 05, 2008As preparations for the launch of GOCE on 10 September continue on schedule, an important milestone has just been achieved as engineers at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia say farewell to the satellite as it is encapsulated in the two half-shells of the launcher's fairing. Now sealing the slender five-metre long GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) ... more NASA TV to show ISS cargo ship arrival 
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 |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 Russia announced another successful test launch of its RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile last week./hl2> The road-mobile Topol ICBM was test-fired from Russia's most modern Plesetsk space center Thursday and covered a distance of 3,700 miles to strike its preplanned target on the Kamchatka Peninsula facing the North Pacific Ocean, RIA Novosti reported Thursday. ... more Russia May Push Forward With S-300 Sales To Iran 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 04, 2008Russia may proceed with plans to sell advanced S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a secret contract believed to have been signed in 2005, a Russian analyst said on Monday. Commenting on an article in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper saying Russia is using the plans as a bargaining chip in its standoff with America, Ruslan Pukhov, director of Moscow-based Center for Analysis of ... more Russia Defense Watch: Black Sea standoff 
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
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