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Taiwan Rejects Further Advanced Radar System Price Hikes
Taiwan will no longer tolerate continuing price increases for two advanced long-range early warning radar systems being purchased from the United States, a Ministry of National Defense spokesman said Tuesday. “The Air Force has protested the price increases many times, and the Defense Ministry has chosen not to be taken for a ride,” said MND [...]
France to Pay Taiwan Penalty Over Warship Deal
The French government and defense giant Thales said Thursday they will pay Taiwan a court-ordered fine of 630 million euros (US$913 million) after losing an appeal in a case involving bribes to clinch a Lafayette-class frigate deal with Taiwan in the 1990s. The ruling brings to an end to a nearly two-decade dispute between France [...]
Chinese Media says Pakistani forces got ‘Bin Laden!’
Pakistani Urdu TV channel Geo News quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying that the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed in a search operation launched by the Pakistani forces after a Pakistani army helicopter was shot down in the wee hours of Monday in Abbotabad, a mountainous town located some 60 kilometers [...]
China Issues White Paper On National Defense to Enhance Transparency
China on Thursday issued a white paper on national defense, aiming to enhance its military’s transparency and boost the world’s trust in its commitment to peaceful development. The document, the seventh of its kind the Chinese government has issued since 1998, says China will never seek hegemony, nor will it adopt the approach of military [...]
Iran To Build Advanced Fighter Aircraft
The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force has launched a project to design and build the country’s most advanced fighter jet, the English language satellite Press TV reported Sunday. Brigadier General Mohammadreza Karshki, a senior Iranian Air force commander, said Saturday that the Iranian Air Force is cooperating with the Defense Ministry in the project, [...]
Israel Nears Completion Of New Missile Alert System
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Home Front Command is about to complete the development of a system that would provide the civilians with early warnings of incoming missiles, local news service Walla reported on Monday. The system seeks to draw on the availability of mobile phones in Israel, one of the world’s biggest users of [...]
Iran Shoots Down Many Western Drones
An Islamic Revolution Guards Corps ( IRGC) commander told semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday that Iran, so far, has shot down many western drones, two of them in Persian Gulf. Aerospace Commander of the IRGC Amir Ali Hadgizadeh told Fars that “they (western drones) have entered our territory a number of times and we [...]
Israel Unveils Newest Anti-Missile System
Jerusalem, Israel: While intelligence assessments consistently paint a grim portrait of thousands of missiles and rockets showering down on Israel’s civilian population and infrastructure in the future, the Jewish state unveils its next-generation missile-defense system. Arrow III, an interceptor designed to knock out ballistic missiles, has until now been shrouded in secrecy. A full-scale model [...]
Western Australia To Host US Defense Space Base
Canberra, Australia: Western Australia will host a new multimillion-dollar U.S. defense base to spy on foreign satellites and keep watch on dangerous space junk, local media reported on Saturday. Fairfax newspapers reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is poised to announce the space base when he visits Australia next week with Secretary of State [...]
