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Business/FinancialSen. Levin Doubtful About Need For Airborne Laser Missile Defense System
Levin Sees Opportunity For Developing European Missile Defense Jointly With Russia Senator: Iranian President Ahmadinejad May Not Be Deterred By U.S. Retaliation Threat From Launching Missile Attack Sen. Carl Levin […]
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Rep. Tauscher Suggests Slashing Ground-based Missile Defense, Others, In Letter To Pentagon Leader
The United States should cut funding for the Ground-based Missile Defense program that aims to take down long-range incoming enemy missiles, focusing instead of systems that counter short- and medium-range […]
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Missile Defense Agency Set To Increase Testing Of Ballistic Missile Defense Systems As Some Lawmakers Challenge Testing Adequacy
Republicans Assert Testing Issue A Pretext Democrats Use To Justify Slashing Funds For Missile Defense In Fiscal 2010 Budget Cuts That Harm Ground-based Missile Defense Program Would Weaken U.S. Defense […]
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Proposed Cuts To Ground-based Midcourse Defense, Airborne Laser, Kinetic Energy Interceptor Imperil Nation
Deferring Or Killing Some Missile Defense Programs Gambles Cities Won’t Be Lost Some members of Congress are considering cuts in ballistic missile defense programs that amount to a gamble that […]
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Budget Reaction: Cutting Funds For GMD Could Harm Capability Just As Iran, North Korea, Pose Growing Threats
ABL Cuts Would Come After Program Has Seen Major Progress, Successes Cutting funding for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system or the Airborne Laser (ABL) could harm U.S. attempts to […]
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CongressAdm. Mullen Concerned Iran Is Moving To Nuclear Capability; North Korean Launch Bears Watching
Mullen Declines To Say Whether U.S. Forces Will Shoot Down Any Missile That North Korea Launches Iran’s illicit nuclear materials development program likely has produced enough materials to make an […]
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Business/Financial
Iran Is Supplying Surface-To-Air Missiles To Taliban In Afghanistan
Iran is supplying SA-14 Gremlin surface-to-air missiles to Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, who wish to launch a spectacular attack on U.S. and coalition forces in the nation that spawned the […]
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Business/Financial
Iran Plans Eight Times More Centrifuges: Report
Iran plans to increase its nuclear materials production capacity to more than eight times its current size, Xinhua news agency reported. Iran plans to expand the 6,000 centrifuges to a […]
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Business/Financial
North Korea Confirms That Launch Is Imminent: Report
North Korea confirmed that it is poised to launch a missile, though the North said it was about to orbit a satellite, rather than to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, […]
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Business/Financial
AsiaSat 5 To Launch On ILS Proton In July-September Quarter
The AsiaSat 5 satellite will launch on an ILS Proton lifter in the July-September quarter, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced. Previously, the company had announced AsiaSat 5 would […]