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Swords and Shields: F-35 beats Russians Washington (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 
Russia lags behind the United States in aerospace research and development. It has yet to produce decent competitors to America's two new, fifth-generation fighter jets, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighter and the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor. The main Russian rivals to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings are the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35 (NATO designation Fulcru ... read more
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Afghan soldiers pick up US weapons
Camp Hero, Afghanistan (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Having already fought against the Taliban in his two years in the Afghan army, Gul Mohammad has little trouble picking up the tricks of his new American-issue automatic weapon. What concerns the young soldier is whether he will be able to rely on the weapon when it counts, as he has done so often before with its Russian equivalent, a Kalashnikov AK-47, favoured in central Asia for decades. ... more Danish ship escapes pirates with help of Russian warship: owner 
Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 14, 2009A Danish ship came under fire in a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden but managed to escape after a Russian warship came to its rescue, the ship's owner A.P. Moeller Maersk said Wednesday. The Danish-owned and Dutch-managed container vessel Nedlloyd Barentsz was chased for half an hour by the pirates on Tuesday, but managed to fend them off with the warship's help, the company said. ... more Space Systems Loral Ships Telstar 11N Satellite To Launch Base 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2009Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications and the leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced that it shipped Telstar 11N to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched on the Land Launch system. Space Systems/Loral designed the satellite, which was built for Telesat, one of the world's leading fixed satellit ... more Russia, China spur worldwide demand for wine: study 
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2009With consumers in Russia and China developing a taste for wine, worldwide demand is expected to climb until 2012 despite the economic downturn, a French study said Tuesday. "We believe that the effects of the economic crisis will be limited" in the wine sector, said Robert Beynat, director of Vinexpo, one of the world's biggest wine fairs held annually in Bordeaux. Russia and China are e ... more Poland plans first nuclear plant, LNG terminal as gas crisis bites 
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 13, 2009Poland said Tuesday its top priority was to ensure its energy security through broad diversification of sources, turning to nuclear power as a row between Russia and Ukraine halted gas supply to Europe. "By 2020 we intend to see power flow from one or two nuclear plants," Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters in Warsaw. Warsaw will consult South Korea and European nuclear ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2009As Eastern Europeans shiver because of Ukraine's obdurate refusal to pay world market prices for Russian natural gas, much less pay off its debts, the era of cheap gas is also over in eastern Central Asia. In 2009 many Central Asians and businesses will look back with some nostalgia on 2008 as a time when they could pay their energy bills without undue hardship. While in Eastern Europe ... more Russian gas crisis puts a flame under nuclear debate in Europe 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2009Cuts in Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine have reignited interest in Europe about using nuclear energy as an alternative to hydrocarbons, sparking environmentalists' ire. "On nuclear energy, this crisis will have consequences for the way we consider energy security in all EU countries," said Czech Energy Minister Martin Riman, whose country holds the bloc's rotating presidency. ... more Swords and Shields: Boosting Venezuela 
Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2009Russia held joint naval exercises with Venezuela late last year to demonstrate its growing strategic reach and political clout, particularly in Latin America, which many consider the traditional U.S. sphere of influence. Provocative? Yes. But Washington and Moscow have restrained the verbal squabbling. Many observers take that as a sign that both sides hope for improved bilateral relati ... more Spacehab To Support Pre-Launch Preparations For Russian Module 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 09, 2009Spacehab, has reached an agreement in principal with RSC Energia, Russia's largest manufacturer of aerospace and space equipment, to provide facilities and support services for its Mini Research Module (MRM1). The MRM1 will be readied for its journey aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle at the Spacehab Cape Canaveral payload processing location. Manifested to fly on STS-132 during the Space Shu ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2009Iran could become involved in a regional strategy to the conflict in Afghanistan, as Tehran shares common interests with the United States there, suggested Thursday General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command. A resolution to the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan requires "a regional approach ... that includes Pakistan, India the Central Asian states and even China and Russia, along wit ... more Analysis: Ukraine-Russia gas row escalates 
Berlin (UPI) Jan 6, 2009 Russia's gas price row with Ukraine escalated Tuesday, disrupting deliveries to Europe as the continent is suffering from a bitterly cold winter. Alexander Medvedev knows he needs to soothe his best customer. The No. 2 at the Russian energy giant Gazprom arrived in Berlin Tuesday to meet with German Economy Minister Michael Glos and a representative from the Czech presidency of the Euro ... more Slovakia says it might reopen nuclear plant if gas freeze lasts 
Bratislava (AFP) Jan 7, 2009Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday that Slovakia might reopen a power generating unit at Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear plant if a freeze of gas supplies from Russia continued. "Should Slovakia continue to be a hostage of this bilateral conflict between Russia and Ukraine, I can imagine reopening of the shut-down unit at Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear plant," Fico told a press confe ... more China-Russia Mars mission set for takeoff 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 5, 2009The first joint Chinese-Russian mission to Mars is set to take off in October and reach the red planet in August 2010, an exploration project designer said. A Russian Zenit rocket will launch a Chinese Yinghuo-1 satellite and a Russian Phobos-Grunt unmanned lander, Chen Changya, chief designer of the China-Russia Mars exploration project, told Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. ... more
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