Pentagon Sees Iranian ‘Ashura’ Missile As Worrying Development
PARIS – Iran’s announcement that it has developed the 1,200-mile range Ashura ballistic missile is being viewed with some concern by the Pentagon.
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Space war and Futurehype
by Nader Elhefnawy The Space Review, Monday, October 22, 2007 We are all only too familiar with futurists’ endless promises about how radically
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Pentagon wants to create space vehicle to fire missiles anywhere on Earth
“The new program, dubbed Falcon, for ‘Force Application and Launch from CONUS,’ centers on a small-launch-vehicle concept of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
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Iran, US: Prospects for a ‘hot war’
In the first of a two-part series, ISN Security Watch examines the chances of military conflict between Iran and the US, which some
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Regional nuclear war could trigger mass starvation
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cause one billion people to starve to death around the world, and hundreds of millions
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Bullet-proof helicopters play key U.S. border role
TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) – Pilot Rich Rouviere gazes through night vision goggles as he speeds the Black Hawk helicopter to where a high-tech
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Heat Ray Too Scary for Iraq
Many a DT reader will remember the so-called “Active Denial System” – a giant millimeter-wave electromagnetic antenna mounted on a Humvee that could
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Study: US preparing ‘massive’ military attack against Iran
The United States has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities,
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U.S. Military in Hunt for Bio-based Jet Fuel
Carbon reduction is not the U.S. military’s real goal. Instead the defense department’s main motivation in pursuing biofuels is to reduce its dependence
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