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Chinese Navy Gets Nuclear Submarine: Reports
September 21, 2017 @ 07:08 AMThe Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has received an unspecified nuclear submarine from the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC). The handing over could have taken place anytime in the last five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012
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US Senate Poised to Pass $700 Billion Defense Policy Bill
September 18, 2017 @ 12:20 PMThe US Senate is likely to pass a $700 billion defense policy bill to boost military spending such as weapons and wartime missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. The legislation is expected to be approved on Monday which will require the Defense Department to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors at Alaska that will expand to 58 the number of interceptors designed to destroy incoming warheads
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North Korea Building Nuclear-powered Submarine: Japanese Newspaper
September 18, 2017 @ 11:12 AMNorth Korea is reportedly building a nuclear-powered submarine likely to be ready in three years, according to a report by Japanese newspaper cited by
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US Military Deploys B-1B Bombers, F-35 Fighters in Exercise near North Korean...
September 18, 2017 @ 09:40 AMThe US military has deployed a pair of B-1B bombers and four F-35B fighter jets in a bombing drill with South Korea along the border with North Korea. "They dropped inert bombs onto the Pilseung shooting range in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, during the exercise held from noon till 2:30 p
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Boeing, Lockheed to Compete for US Navy’s Unmanned Autonomous Submarine Competition
September 16, 2017 @ 12:13 PMBoeing and Lockheed Martin will be competing for a competition for unmanned submarines that can navigate autonomously for the US Navy. Boeing has developed a 51-foot long vessel, ‘Echo Voyager as part of the bid process for the US Navys unmanned submarines competition
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South Korea Tests Two Ballistic Missiles, One Fails
September 15, 2017 @ 01:41 PMSouth Korea test fired two homegrown ballistic missiles in response to Norths missile launch on Friday, one of which crashed into the sea immediately after the launch. The missile is question is Hyunmoo II-A intermediate-range ballistic missile that splashed into the East Sea within a few seconds of being launched
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Indian Navy to Receive First Scorpene-class Nuclear Submarine in September
September 13, 2017 @ 10:34 AMThe Indian Navy is likely to be commission its first Scorpene-class submarine, Kalvari, in the middle of this month. “The delivery is to take place around the middle of September,” one of the people quoted above said
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Russia Tests Nuclear-capable Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ‘RS-24 Yars’
September 13, 2017 @ 09:17 AMRussia successfully tested a Yars silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Tuesday at Plesetsk space center. "The test launch of a RS-24 Yars silo-based solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a multiple independently targeted reentry vehicle [MIRV] was carried out by a unit of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces," Russian ministry said in a statement
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Russian Federal Security Service Tasked With Defending Against Cyber-attacks
September 9, 2017 @ 09:46 AMThe Russia Federal Security Service (FSS) has been given the responsibility of defending the country against cyber-attacks. Based on the draft proposal issued on Russian legal information web portal on Friday, the presients decree of Jan 15, 2014 on establishing a state system of detection, prevention and elimination of cyber-attacks on Russian digital resources, the amendments will ensure FSB maintain this system,
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Networked Japan Worried Over Pyongyang's Electromagnetic Wave Weapon
September 8, 2017 @ 12:35 PMOne of the world's most densely networked countries, Japan is worried after North Korea claimed its nuclear weapon can create an electromagnetic wave that would fry electronic devices and disrupt communications for hundreds of kilometers around the explosion's core. North Korea last Sunday claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb and also said that it has the ability to detonate a high-altitude Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) that would fry electronic devices and disrupt communications for hundreds of kilometres
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