Topic: - on January 21, 2003 at 4:38:27 PM CET
UK's aircraft carriers run on Windows for warships?
Know we know the real meaning from - Blue screen of death !!??
Last week UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon mounted an odd attack on the country's major defence contractor, BAE Systems, claiming that large foreign shareholdings in the company meant that it could no longer be viewed as British. The assault was seen by observers as perhaps being a pre-emptive strike in the run-up to Hoon's potential award of the contract for two aircraft carriers to French company Thales, rather than to maybe-not-so-local player BAE. But Register sources claim BAE's defeat may also save us from a real deployment of Windows for warships.
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Topic: - on January 21, 2003 at 4:29:56 PM CET
US develops lightning weapon
The US Air Force is working on developing a man-made bolt of lightning powerful enough to fry sophisticated computer and electronic components in weapons.
Researchers are looking at ways of putting so-called High-Powered Microwave (HPM) beams on aircraft and cruise missiles.
¬> BBC
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Topic: - on January 19, 2003 at 12:32:15 AM CET
Thousands Rally in D.C. Against Iraq War
Tens of thousands rallied in the capital Saturday in an emphatic dissent against preparations for war in Iraq, voicing a cry — "No blood for oil" — heard in demonstrations around the world. A rally in the shadows of Washington's political and military institutions anchored dozens of smaller protests throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
In Washington, police said 30,000 marched through the streets, part of a much larger crowd that packed the west end of the National Mall and spilled on to the Capitol grounds.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">AP
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Topic: - on January 17, 2003 at 12:40:47 AM CET
Kein schlagkraeftiger Beweis
Die UNO-Waffeninspektoren haben im Irak am Donnerstag zwölf leere Sprengköpfe für Chemiewaffen entdeckt. Der Fund sei aber kein schlagkräftiger Beweis dafür, dass das Land verbotene Massenvernichtungswaffen besitzt, hieß es in einer Reaktion aus den USA. Der Irak beteuerte, die Sprengköpfe stünden nicht in Zusammenhang mit verbotenen Waffenprogrammen. UNO-Chefinspektor Blix hatte zuvor die Lage als "sehr gefährlich" bezeichnet.
¬> <a href="orf.at"target="_blank">ORF
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Topic: - on January 16, 2003 at 7:12:21 PM CET
U.N. Experts Report Chemical Warheads Find in Iraq
U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads during an inspection of a storage area in Iraq on Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said in Baghdad. The spokesman, Hiro Ueki, did not give any estimate of the significance of the find during an inspection of the Ukhaider Ammunition Storage Area. He said an inspection team had gone there to inspect a large group of bunkers constructed in the late 1990s.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 11:03:57 PM CET
Germans sold Iraq parts for supergun
Details of an alleged plot by Saddam Hussein's regime to acquire the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction were laid out before a German court yesterday.
Two German businessmen went on trial in Mannheim, charged with supplying Iraq with equipment for the manufacture of a giant cannon.
After reading the indictment, the prosecutor, Stephan Morweiser, told reporters that the weapon would be "capable of firing not only conventional, but also nuclear, biological and chemical weapons".
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Topic: - on January 13, 2003 at 7:19:51 PM CET
Military robots well trained for war
In future wars, robots may drop from the sky by the hundreds from unmanned aircraft, swarming like giant insects over battlefields in coordinated, terrifying assaults.
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Topic: - on January 13, 2003 at 1:46:34 PM CET
Uncle Sams Spam Propaganda
Baghdad blocked all emails from the USA
Recently Iraq, so much disliked by the USA has fallen victim of this spam-propaganda. The Pentagon emailed messages in Arab addressed to military commanders and representatives of the civil administrations in Iraq with a view to set them against Saddam Hussein. The emails also urge the Iraqi people to report about the sites with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and to disobey orders of the Iraqi president. The emails were received from the USA within several days until Baghdad blocked them. Now just several high-ranking governmental officials, officers and scholars have the access to the state-controlled email.
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Topic: - on January 11, 2003 at 10:36:29 AM CET
Pirate Afghan Radio Broadcasts
Pirate Afghan Radio Station Broadcasting Anti-Government, Anti-U.S. Messages. A pirate radio station operating in eastern Afghanistan is broadcasting appeals to overthrow the fragile central government and attack U.S.-led coalition forces, area residents said Saturday.
The broadcasts have been picked up sporadically by residents of Paktia province around the area of Khost, said a local businessman reached by satellite telephone.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 12:04:34 PM CET
Airborne Laser
* Attacks ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight, when they are most vulnerable and predictable.
* Unique force multiplier provides missile launch and impact point prediction cues to other DoD assets.
* Fully integrated into joint DoD operations.
- Uses Link 16 to communicate with other joint DoD assets.
¬> Airbornelaser
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 4:40:48 PM CET
Tito▓s Bunker in Bosnia May Help Liquidate Hussein
The US Government sent a group of specialists to Bosnia to examine an underground shelter constructed for the president of the former Yugoslav Republic Josip Broz Tito near the city of Bugojno in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 12:39:53 PM CET
Timeline of UAV
With their strange silhouettes and awe-inspiring capabilities, today's UAVs, like this Predator, seem to have flown in from the future. But the Predator UAV and the dozen other operational UAVs in the U.S. military arsenal owe their existence to the past. They are only the most recent and advanced installments in a century-old history of unmanned warfare and surveillance from the skies.
¬><a href="www.pbs.org"target="_blank">PSB
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