PDX Independent Defense Website
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: 4 Oct 13:04 EDT (17:04 GMT)
BEIJING - China denounced proposed U.S. arms sales to Taiwan worth $6.5 billion, according to state media on Oct. 4, warning “there is only one China in the world, and that Taiwan is a part of China.”
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Off the Aleutians, the USS Grunion resides, having disappeared 66 years ago
By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 05, 2008
The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutian Islands is that of the USS Grunion, a submarine that disappeared during World War II.
3 Oct 2008, 1831 hrs IST,PTI
KOCHI: The Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) hopes to develop an indigenous Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) submarine in four to five years, chief controller, Research and Development, Dr A Sivathanu Pillai has said.
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02 October 2008
Brazil’s air force said on Wednesday that it had chosen US-based Boeing, France’s Dassault and Saab of Sweden as finalists in a tender for 36 fighter jets as part of a fleet renewal.
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By Gareth Jenkins
Eurasia Daily Monitor
Monday, September 29, 2008
On September 27 the Turkish navy launched the corvette TCG Heybeliada, the first modern warship to be designed, built, and equipped primarily from local resources.
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By THOMAS NEWDICK
Published: 3 Oct 10:29 EDT (14:29 GMT)
BERLIN - German Air Force officials have confirmed that the air-to-ground version of the Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 will enter service before the end of 2009.
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MOSCOW (AFP) — Seven Russian soldiers were killed on Friday in an apparent car bomb attack in the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia condemned by Moscow as an attempt to undermine the EU-Russia peace accord.
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02/10/2008 17h28
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Twin suicide bombings near Shiite mosques in Iraq’s capital killed 20 people on Thursday as worshippers celebrated Eid al-Fitr, which ends the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, officials said.
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02/10/2008 16h11
LONDON (AFP) - Felimon Cayang says he is ready to die to save his native southern Philippine island from the Muslim separatist rebels spreading terror through its Christian communities.
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02/10/2008 02h01
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate on Wednesday endorsed a landmark US-India nuclear agreement, removing the final legislative hurdle for resumption of civilian nuclear trade between the two countries after three decades.
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