Archive for December, 2011
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Arab League monitors overseeing compliance with a peace plan for Syria have been visiting the capital, Damascus, and other cities but killings show no sign of abating.
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Tags: Arab League, Bashar al-Assad, EU Sanctions on Syria, Free Syrian Army (FSA), Int Defense News, International Defense Treaty, Syrian Air Force, Syrian Armed Forces, Syrian Army, Syrian Defense Ministry, Syrian Foreign Ministry, Syrian Navy, Syrian Unrest, Syria’s Transitional National Council, UN resolution on Syria
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
The Indian army’s corps of engineers has taken delivery of the first six indigenously made, remotely operated vehicles designed for bomb disposal.
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Tags: Indian Armed Forces, Indian Army, Indian Defense Research and Development Organization, Indian Ministry of Defence, Int Defense News, ROV Daksh
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Taiwan Ministry of National Defense (MND) yesterday denied a local media report that the United States will increase the price tag of the retrofit package that Washington approved earlier this year for a total of 145 F-16A/B jets.
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Tags: F-16 Fighting Falcons, Int Defense News, International Arms Deal, International Defense Treaty, Lockheed Martin, Taiwanese Air Force, Taiwanese Armed Forces, Taiwanese Defense Ministry, US-Taiwan Arms Deal, US-Taiwan Relation
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
A man wearing an Afghan army uniform on Thursday shot dead two members of Nato’s US-led International Security Assistance Force, military officials said.
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Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Int Defense News, International Defense Treaty, ISAF, NATO forces, Taliban, US Armed Forces, US War in Afghanistan, US War on Terror
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
South Sudan’s military spokesman Philip Aguer said those killed were cattle herders in West Bahr al-Ghazal state – further west than other recent clashes.
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Tags: Abyei region, Int Defense News, International Defense Treaty, north-south Sudanese peace process, Sudanese Air Force, Sudanese Armed Forces, UN-AU Special Representative, UNAMID, United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
By Konstantin Bogdanov.
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Tags: Article, Bulava ballistic missile, Bulava missile, Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (MITT), R-29RM Sineva missiles, R-29Rmissiles, R-39UTTH Bark, RSM-56 in international treaties, Russian Armed Forces, Russian Defense Ministry, Russian ICBM, Russian Missiles, Soviet missile R-39, SS-N-28, SS-NX-30 SLBM
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Swedish defense company Saab is to conduct studies on future enhancements to its Gripen, multi-role combat jets flown by the Swedish air force.
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Tags: Int Defense News, International Arms Deal, International Defense Treaty, JAS 39 Gripen fighter, Saab, Swedish Air Force, Swedish Armed Forces, Swedish Defense Industry, Swedish Defense Ministry, Swedish Gripen C/D fighters
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
A showdown between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers worsened Dec. 29 with warships from each side giving weight to an increasingly bellicose exchange of words.
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Tags: Int Defense News, Iran Armed Forces, Iran Def News, Iranian Defense Forces, Iranian Defense Ministry, Iranian Navy, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards air force wing, Strait of Hormuz, US Drones, US Navy, US Navy Drones, US Navy Fifth Fleet, US-Iran Crisis, Western spy drones
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
The DPRK is holding a farewell ceremony for its late leader Kim Jung Il in Pyongyang. Kim’s death was a shock not only to the DPRK. China, its border-sharing neighbor, and long-time friend was also caught by surprise.
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Tags: China and the Korean peninsula, China-North Korea Military Ties, China-North Korea Relation, Chinese Armed Forces, Chinese Defense Ministry, Chinese foreign ministry, Int Defense News, International Defense Treaty, Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-un, North Korean Armed Forces, North Korean Defense Ministry, North Korean nuclear and conventional weapons, North Korean Nuclear Crisis
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Russia’s Nerpa nuclear submarine has finished sea trials and is now ready to be leased to the Indian navy in the next few days, an engineer said on Wednesday.
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Tags: India-Russian Relation, Indian Armed Forces, Indian Navy, Indian Submarines, INS Chakra, Int Defense News, International Arms Deal, International Defense Treaty, K-152 Nerpa attack submarine, Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, Russian Armed Forces, Russian Navy, Russian Nuclear Power Submarine, Russian Submarines
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