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Swords and Shields: Iran's missile allies
Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 Attempts to thwart Iran's missile ambitions are hampered by the fact that Tehran is being backed by Russia and China. These powers are actually partners in the Iranian ballistic missile and space programs, which they view as both geopolitically desirable -- to dilute U.S. influence -- and lucrative. It is likely that Iran's Explorer-1 rocket is the result of the country's advanced balli ... more US envoy in China for talks on NKorea nuclear deal 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2008US envoy Christopher Hill held talks Saturday with his Chinese counterpart amid stepped-up efforts to salvage a crumbling North Korean nuclear disarmament deal, a US embassy spokesman said. Hill, who was in discussions this week in North Korea on the faltering deal, briefed Chinese officials, including top nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei, as well as Sergey Razov, Russia's ambassador to China, on ... more Latest Bulava Tests Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 In 1998, Russia's Security Council and the country's president decided that the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering and its general designer, Yury Solomonov, should develop the missile system for a series of Borei-class submarines, with assistance from Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau experts, a fact never mentioned by Institute critics. But the development specifications remained the sam ... more Russia Eyes New Customers For Iskander E Missile 
Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 A surprising number of countries, including some with warm ties to the United States, are interested in buying Russia's short-range but formidable Iskander-E ballistic missile. A senior executive of Rosoboronexport, the coordinating Russian arms exporting agency, stated Wednesday that Kuwait, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates - all traditional U.S. allies - were interested in ... more Analysis: Azerbaijan's new export routes 
Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 The August military confrontation between Georgia and Russia had a crippling collateral effect on Azerbaijan. In the wake of the conflict, which effectively shut in the majority of Azeri oil exports, Baku has broadened its export strategy to include renewing ties with Russia and, in an event certain to irk Washington, expanding oil swaps with Iran. The truth is, however, the Russian-Ge ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008The deployment of US missile defenses in eastern Europe is in the US interest and not a move against Russia, a senior foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama said Thursday. "I do not think Russia has a legitimate security concern here," Richard Danzig, a former Navy secretary in the Clinton administration, told defense reporters here. Danzig's remarks to ... more Russia Plans To Raise Defense Expenditure By Half In Three Years 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 03, 2008Russia is planning to increase its spending on defense by 50% in the next three years, a senior MP said Tuesday. Russia's defense budget is believed to be less than a tenth of the United States', but the country's military expenditure has been steadily growing in the past few years. "According to a draft federal budget for 2009-2011, expenditure on national defense will increase in 2009 ... more Rice to travel to India, Kazakhstan 
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to India and Kazakhstan from Friday, including for talks in New Delhi about the landmark US-India civilian nuclear agreement passed by Congress, the State Department said Thursday. Rice "will travel to India and Kazakhstan on October 3rd through the 5th," department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. In India, she will meet with ... more Pirates shine spotlight on Ukraine's arms-trafficking trade 
Kiev (AFP) Oct 2, 2008The pirate hijacking of a Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with tanks off Somalia has refocused attention on arms-trafficking by the former Soviet republic, one of the world's 10 biggest arms exporters. Experts say Ukraine has greatly improved arms-export controls after a string of scandals but remains a potential source of weapons for pariah states and rebel groups worldwide, in an embarrassment ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Russia launched a converted intercontinental ballistic missile from a rocket launch site the south Urals to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit on Wednesday, the Strategic Missile Forces said. "The launch of the RS-20B intercontinental ballistic missile was made at 10:37 a.m. Moscow time [06:37 GMT]," spokesman Colonel Alexander Vovk said. A representative of the ... more Russia, India To Develop New BrahMos Cruise Missile 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Russia and India will jointly develop a new BrahMos-2 hypersonic cruise missile, the head of the BrahMos company said on Monday. "At a meeting of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation, we decided to set up a working group on the development of the BrahMos-2 missile," the company's CEO, Sivathanu Pillai said. "The new hypersonic missile will have ... more Venezuela To Spend One Billion Dollar Russian Loan On Air Defense 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Venezuela plans to use most of the $1 bln loan granted by Russia to buy air-defense systems, a Russian military analyst has said. Russia announced the loan offer earlier on Friday, during a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "Venezuela needs primarily Tor-M1 surface to air systems to protect the airfields where the 24 Su-30 MK2 jet fighters it bought from Russia are based," said ... more Outside View: Russia, Cuba team up again 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 1, 2008 There is every reason to say that Russia has started reasserting its global position. This includes big-time politics and efforts to expand scientific and military-technical cooperation with other countries, including Cuba, the Soviet Union's main Latin American ally. It is hard to overestimate the importance of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, for Russia. Commenting on the result ... more
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