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Gilat SkyEdge Network To Serve Hundreds Of Sites In Kazakhstan Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Jan 28, 2009 
Gilat Satellite Networks has announced it has been selected by its long-time customer and Kazakhstan's largest telecommunications operator, JSC Kazakhtelecom (KT), to expand its existing SkyEdge network to serve several hundred additional sites in remote locations nationwide. In addition to providing network connectivity for businesses and consumers, the new expansion will be used to provi ... read more
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Russia To Use Two Launch Pads At Baikonur For ISS Missions
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2009Russia will use two launch pads at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to send four manned missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, a Russian space agency official said on Monday. Four Soyuz manned spacecraft and five Progress freighters will be launched from Baikonur to the orbital station in 2009. The ISS crew is to be increased from three to six. "The situation in ... more Russia to fully finance army despite crisis: Medvedev 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 28, 2009Russia will fully finance development programmes for its military despite the economic crisis, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged in a meeting with navy cadets Tuesday. "Today, despite the difficulties facing our state, the funds that had been set aside to develop the navy and the armed forces as a whole will all be invested," Medvedev was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. ... more Russia accuses Georgia of 'capturing' soldier 
Tbilisi (AFP) Jan 27, 2009Russia on Tuesday accused Georgia of capturing one of its soldiers in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, in the latest upsurge of tensions between the foes who fought a brief war in August. Georgian officials countered that the soldier had asked for asylum due to "unbearable conditions" in the Russian army and even took him to the central Tbilisi branch of fast food chain McDonalds. ... more Russia Defense Watch: New jet to fly soon 
Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2009 Russia's former defense minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who still spearheads high-tech development programs, said Wednesday the country's ambitious fifth-generation air superiority combat aircraft would take its first test flight before the end of 2009, RIA Novosti reported. "We expect the plane to take to the skies no later than the end of this year ... more Space Program Still Vital 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2009In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy told Congress we'd put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, he knew that the journey of discovery would yield more value than simply beating the Russians to the moon. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth," were the ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Jan 26, 2009A fuel oil spill off Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin has killed hundreds of birds in a wildlife area of international importance, Russian news agencies reported Monday. "Hundreds of birds have been killed, including ducks, guillemots and divers," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the head of the Sakhalin diving centre Vladimir Bardin as saying. "The shore is covered for three ... more Russia says 'ice broken' in chilly NATO relations 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 24, 2009Russia on Saturday said there has been a thaw in its chilly relations with the Western military alliance NATO, ahead of high-level informal talks between the two sides next week. "In fact the ice has been broken," Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told the Echo of Moscow radio station in an interview. "The ice has been broken because the informal NATO-Russia meeting on Monday ma ... more Gaza, Georgia And Beyond Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2009 Russia and Israel both won clear tactical military victories in their recent mini-wars in Georgia and Gaza, but Russia looks more likely to profit at the long-term strategic level than Israel does. In both cases, military efficiency and success at the combat level did not translate into any real political-strategic gain. Pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili remains in power in the ... more Gaza, Georgia And Beyond Part One
Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2009 Did Russia win or lose its five-day war in Georgia, and did Israel win or lose its three-week war in Gaza? The answers in both cases lie on the political and strategic levels, not in the areas of tactics and ground combat. It may be argued that Russia failed and Israel succeeded, or that both nations failed in their longer-term strategic goals, because pro-Western President Mikheil Saak ... more |
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by Ilya KramnikMoscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009 The Russian Navy is going to return to its bases abroad. A statement to this effect was made by the spokesman for the Navy's headquarters last week. What will the Russian Navy's return be like after 20 years' absence? What goals can it pursue? During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy was stationed in the Mediterranean to prevent an attack by Western aircraft ... more Russian Strategic Bombers Conduct Patrols Over Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009Russian Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers carried out on Wednesday regular patrols over the Arctic Ocean, a Russian Air Force spokesman said. "Two Tu-160 strategic bombers carried out on Wednesday a regular patrol flight over the Norwegian Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The crews honed their instrumental flight skills and accomplished several other tasks," Lt. Col. Vladimir ... more Russia Defense Watch: New 10-year plan 
Washington (UPI) Jan 20, 2009 Despite facing the threat of bankruptcy because of rock-bottom global prices for its oil exports, the Russian government is pushing ahead with a costly new plan to re-equip and upgrade its armed forces with state-of-the-art and high-tech weapons by 2020. The Moscow newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported Monday the Russian Defense Ministry has already begun work on a 10-year plan for arm ... more India admits failed cruise missile test 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 21, 2009A supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by Russia and India failed to hit its target in a test previously reported as successful, Indian military scientists said Wednesday. The Defence Research and Development Organisation, which Tuesday claimed the test of the BrahMos missile had been a "total success," said the missile had flown only in the general direction of its target. ... more
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