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Archive for: March, 2011

Defense Communications Market Poised to Shift to High Gear

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Global defense is inseparably woven with technology, particularly communications technology. Communications systems on the battlefield are vital components for mission success. For soldiers on the ground, radio and other communications devices act as lifelines. Communications technologies have developed to such an extent that the ability to instantly share critical intelligence data as well as seamlessly [...]

Engineering microbes to produce fuel

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To reinvent the fuel business, engineers at biofuel start-up Joule Unlimited tinker with tiny life forms all day. The four-year-old start-up is on the front lines of a branch of biotechnology that taps into the wealth of knowledge from genome sequencing and powerful computer tools to start from scratch and ask: if you wanted the [...]

Obesity messes with the brain

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Obesity subtly diminishes memory and other features of thinking and reasoning even among seemingly healthy people, an international team of scientists reports. At least some of these impairments appear reversible through weight loss. Researchers also report one likely mechanism for those cognitive deficits: damage to the wiring that links the brain’s information-processing regions. A number [...]

Azerbaijani serviceman killed as Armenians violated ceasefire

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Azerbaijani serviceman was killed as Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire. The incident happened on the line of contact near Ashagi Abdurrahmanli village of Fuzuli region. Azerbaijani serviceman Samir Hidayat Agayev was killed as Armenian servicemen violated ceasefire. Samir Agayev, 25, was drafted from Tovuz region. He has been buried in his native Yukhari Oysuzlu village [...]

Turkey reluctantly joins Libya military action

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Turkey’s parliament approved sending a naval force off the coast of Libya as the Islamist-rooted government reluctantly moved to join military action in the conflict-torn country, despite anger at Western-led air raids. Following harsh criticism of the strikes, the government asked parliament to approve the dispatch of military forces, pledging a submarine, four frigates and [...]

All F-35s Cleared To Resume Flight Tests

The first F-35C test aircraft comes in for a landing March 4. Grounded after a generator failure on another aircraft, the F-35C and all other Joint Strike Fighters now can resume flight operations.

Faulty maintenance procedures were found to have caused the March 9 in-flight failure of the engine generators aboard an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft, the program office said Friday night. Those procedures have now been revised, and the entire fleet of F-35s has been cleared to resume flight operations. The problem was revealed when [...]

Canadian General to Run NATO’s Libya Command

Canadian Lt. General Charlie Bouchard

NATO has named three-star Canadian general, Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, to run NATO’s Libya operations, enforcing a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone and arms embargo, an alliance official said March 25. Bouchard will also take command of the entire military campaign to protect civilians from troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi when and if the 28-member alliance takes [...]

Israel to Deploy ‘Iron Dome’ Anti-Rocket System

Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket system is designed for intercepting short range surface-to-surface rockets.

Israel will deploy its “Iron Dome” multi-million-dollar missile defense system in southern Israel for the first time next week in the wake of rocket attacks from Gaza, officials said March 25. “I authorized the army to deploy in the next few days the first battery of ‘Iron Dome’ for an operational trial,” Defence Minister Ehud [...]

Turkey to treat the injured in Libya

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Turkey’s State Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said on Sunday that Turkey was not watching the developments in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia “as if it was watching a match.” Cicek said the United Nations (UN) should carry out its resolution regarding Libya on a certain legal discipline, and its best way seemed to [...]

Is Turkey ready for a headscarved deputy?

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 With little time left before the general elections in June, Turkey is for the first time openly and extensively debating the prospects of having a headscarved deputy or deputies in Parliament, with various segments of society voicing their support for the election of these women to Parliament.   There is very little time left [...]





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