DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract To Develop Navigation System For The U.S. Navy's Super Hornet And Growler Aircraft

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract To Develop Navigation System For The U.S. Navy's Super Hornet And Growler Aircraft

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 21, 2012: Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has been awarded a competitive prototyping contract by The Boeing Company to develop an embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system (EGI) for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft.

Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will produce a prototype inertial navigation system demonstrating fiber-optic gyro performance suitability for F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) needs. JPALS is a next-generation aircraft landing system that will utilize Global Positioning System (GPS) data and replace radar-based systems.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems (Iran)

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems (Iran)

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces will receive the second batch of Pantsir-S air defense systems by November this year, the Defense Ministry said.

Pantsir-S is a short-to-medium range combined surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery system designed to protect point and area targets. The Russian military took delivery of the first batch (more than 10 units) in 2011.

“The second delivery is expected in September-October this year,” a Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

“The main purpose of this system is to protect S-400 Triumf air defense systems at their deployment sites from enemy air and missile strikes,” the official said.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems (Iran)

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems (Iran)

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces will receive the second batch of Pantsir-S air defense systems by November this year, the Defense Ministry said.

Pantsir-S is a short-to-medium range combined surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery system designed to protect point and area targets. The Russian military took delivery of the first batch (more than 10 units) in 2011.

“The second delivery is expected in September-October this year,” a Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

“The main purpose of this system is to protect S-400 Triumf air defense systems at their deployment sites from enemy air and missile strikes,” the official said.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems (Syria)

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems (Syria)

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces will receive the second batch of Pantsir-S air defense systems by November this year, the Defense Ministry said.

Pantsir-S is a short-to-medium range combined surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery system designed to protect point and area targets. The Russian military took delivery of the first batch (more than 10 units) in 2011.

“The second delivery is expected in September-October this year,” a Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

“The main purpose of this system is to protect S-400 Triumf air defense systems at their deployment sites from enemy air and missile strikes,” the official said.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces will receive the second batch of Pantsir-S air defense systems by November this year, the Defense Ministry said.

Pantsir-S is a short-to-medium range combined surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery system designed to protect point and area targets. The Russian military took delivery of the first batch (more than 10 units) in 2011.

“The second delivery is expected in September-October this year,” a Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

“The main purpose of this system is to protect S-400 Triumf air defense systems at their deployment sites from enemy air and missile strikes,” the official said.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Military To Receive 2nd Batch of Pantsir-S Systems

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces will receive the second batch of Pantsir-S air defense systems by November this year, the Defense Ministry said.

Pantsir-S is a short-to-medium range combined surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery system designed to protect point and area targets. The Russian military took delivery of the first batch (more than 10 units) in 2011.

“The second delivery is expected in September-October this year,” a Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

“The main purpose of this system is to protect S-400 Triumf air defense systems at their deployment sites from enemy air and missile strikes,” the official said.

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DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated September 20, 2012

DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated September 20, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Pakistani security officials and local residents gather beside the wreckage of a destroyed passenger bus following a bomb explosion in Mastung district, about 25 kilometres south of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province on September 18, 2012. Photos by AFP

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DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated September 20, 2012

DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated September 20, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 20, 2012: Comprehensive daily news related to Pakistan - Latest Headlines Newsfor the world of TODAY.

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: Two Models of Chinese 5th-Gen Fighter In Works (PHOTOS)

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: Two Models of Chinese 5th-Gen Fighter In Works (PHOTOS)

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 19, 2012: The Chinese military has leaked first photos of a brand new lightweight fighter with external characteristics that allow the jet fifth-generation attribution. Some pictures suggest it could be used on future Chinese aircraft carriers.

Shenyang Aircraft Industry Group (SAC), one of the leading aircraft design and manufacturing corporations of China’s aviation industry, has rolled out a prototype that might eventually become Chinese analogue to America’s F-35.

The aircraft bears a certain resemblance to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, and even reportedly has the codename F-60. Though absolutely no characteristics of the prototype have been unveiled, one major difference is obvious: unlike its American relative, China’s F-60 has two engines.

The pictures of the Chinese technology demonstrator suggest that the engines the aircraft is currently equipped with do not have thrust vectoring nozzles which might suggest the prototype is at too early a stage of testing to get more sophisticated and powerful propulsion package.

Inclined twin vertical tail and wide-spaced ram air inlets are reminiscent of Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor Joint Strike Fighter.

A blurred photo from China Military Report website is the only proof that SAC’s F 60 aircraft has successfully been airborne.

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: Two Models of Chinese 5th-Gen Fighter In Works (PHOTOS)

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: Two Models of Chinese 5th-Gen Fighter In Works (PHOTOS)

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 19, 2012: The Chinese military has leaked first photos of a brand new lightweight fighter with external characteristics that allow the jet fifth-generation attribution. Some pictures suggest it could be used on future Chinese aircraft carriers.

Shenyang Aircraft Industry Group (SAC), one of the leading aircraft design and manufacturing corporations of China’s aviation industry, has rolled out a prototype that might eventually become Chinese analogue to America’s F-35.

The aircraft bears a certain resemblance to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, and even reportedly has the codename F-60. Though absolutely no characteristics of the prototype have been unveiled, one major difference is obvious: unlike its American relative, China’s F-60 has two engines.

The pictures of the Chinese technology demonstrator suggest that the engines the aircraft is currently equipped with do not have thrust vectoring nozzles which might suggest the prototype is at too early a stage of testing to get more sophisticated and powerful propulsion package.

Inclined twin vertical tail and wide-spaced ram air inlets are reminiscent of Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor Joint Strike Fighter.

A blurred photo from China Military Report website is the only proof that SAC’s F 60 aircraft has successfully been airborne.

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: Two Models of Chinese 5th-Gen Fighter In Works (PHOTOS)

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: Two Models of Chinese 5th-Gen Fighter In Works (PHOTOS)

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 19, 2012: The Chinese military has leaked first photos of a brand new lightweight fighter with external characteristics that allow the jet fifth-generation attribution. Some pictures suggest it could be used on future Chinese aircraft carriers.

Shenyang Aircraft Industry Group (SAC), one of the leading aircraft design and manufacturing corporations of China’s aviation industry, has rolled out a prototype that might eventually become Chinese analogue to America’s F-35.

The aircraft bears a certain resemblance to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, and even reportedly has the codename F-60. Though absolutely no characteristics of the prototype have been unveiled, one major difference is obvious: unlike its American relative, China’s F-60 has two engines.

The pictures of the Chinese technology demonstrator suggest that the engines the aircraft is currently equipped with do not have thrust vectoring nozzles which might suggest the prototype is at too early a stage of testing to get more sophisticated and powerful propulsion package.

Inclined twin vertical tail and wide-spaced ram air inlets are reminiscent of Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor Joint Strike Fighter.

A blurred photo from China Military Report website is the only proof that SAC’s F 60 aircraft has successfully been airborne.

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DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: FGFA – Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft Sukhoi T-50 Quantum Leap For Indian Aerospace

DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: FGFA – Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft Sukhoi T-50 Quantum Leap For Indian Aerospace

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 19, 2012: Two significant developments have stirred up the world of military aviation this year. In March, the U.S. Air Force revealed it had started work to field a new Long Range Strike Bomber by the 2020s. This will be first new American strategic bomber to be built after the Cold War.

The signing of the Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation fighter aircraft contract propels India to joint developer of the world’s most advanced stealth aircraft.

How much the global balance of power has shifted since the Cold War days was clear when it was revealed that the aircraft the American bomber might encounter in the skies will have a large Indian signature – in more ways than one. 

In August, the Indian Air Force announced that India and Russia are getting set to ink the final R&D contract for the Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) by the end of the year or early-2013. The contract is worth more than US$ 11 billion, and according to the terms of the agreement both countries will share 50 percent of the costs.

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DTN News - ISRAEL DEFENSE NEWS: IDF Launches Surprise Live-Fire Drill In Golan

DTN News - ISRAEL DEFENSE NEWS: IDF Launches Surprise Live-Fire Drill In Golan 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 19, 2012: The IDF launched a surprise drill early Wednesday morning on the Golan Heights.

Units were scrambled to the North without warning following an order was given by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz.

The exercise is aimed at testing the fitness and readiness of several IDF units, with the Artillery Corps taking up center stage.

The Air Force has joined units from the IDF's Northern and Central Commands to take part in the drill. Other military forces are also taking part.

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DTN News - ISRAEL DEFENSE NEWS: IDF Launches Surprise Live-Fire Drill In Golan

DTN News - ISRAEL DEFENSE NEWS: IDF Launches Surprise Live-Fire Drill In Golan 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 19, 2012: The IDF launched a surprise drill early Wednesday morning on the Golan Heights.

Units were scrambled to the North without warning following an order was given by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz.

The exercise is aimed at testing the fitness and readiness of several IDF units, with the Artillery Corps taking up center stage.

The Air Force has joined units from the IDF's Northern and Central Commands to take part in the drill. Other military forces are also taking part.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Leon E Panetta In China - Gift Plate

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Leon E Panetta In China - Gift Plate

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 18, 2012:  U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta receives a plate as a gift to commemorate his visit to China from Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie after an official dinner in Beijing, Sept. 18, 2012. 

Panetta visited Tokyo before Beijing, and will continue to Auckland, New Zealand, during a weeklong trip to the Asia-Pacific region. 

DOD photo by Erin Kirk-Cuomo

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Female Car Bomber Kills 12 In Kabul

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Female Car Bomber Kills 12 In Kabul

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 18, 2012: Afghanistan police and officials investigate the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on September 18, 2012. 

A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a minivan carrying foreigners on a major highway leading to the international airport in the Afghan capital, police said, killing at least 12 people, including nine foreigners was in revenge for an anti-Islam film made in America. (Photo - AFP)

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Builds Its Own Military-Industrial Complex

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Builds Its Own Military-Industrial Complex

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 17, 2012: Visitors leave their souvenirs on the floor as they take a group photo after attending a parade by the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong garrison at Shek Kong airbase in Hong Kong in this June 29, 2012. 
file photo. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Builds Its Own Military-Industrial Complex

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Builds Its Own Military-Industrial Complex

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 17, 2012: Missiles are displayed in a parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing in this October 1, 2009.

 file photo. Credit: Reuters/Jason Lee/Files

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DTN News - CHINA NEWS: China Seized By Second Day of Violent Anti-Japan Protests

DTN News - CHINA NEWS: China Seized By Second Day of Violent Anti-Japan Protests

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 16, 2012: Riot police fire tear gas at protesters outside the city headquarters of Communist Party of China during an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen. More than 50 Chinese cities saw mass protests against Japan on Sunday, with police in the southern city of Shenzhen using tear gas and water cannons to dispel an angry mob.

The protests swept through China over the weekend, as large mobs demanded that Japan hand over control of a small island chain known as the Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku in Japan.

In Beijing, demonstrators pelted the Japanese embassy with eggs and rocks, in front of masses of paramilitary police.

In other cities, there were violent incidents, including the torching of a Panasonic factory and a Toyota dealership in Qingdao. 

(Photo: EPA)

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DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Wounded Knee Landed In Hospital - September 14, 2012

DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Wounded Knee Landed In Hospital - September 14, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 14, 2012: Unfortunately my knee snapped and had to take an ambulance to the hospital. Now I am walking with the support of a walker. 

It was a very stressful day for my better half holding the fort, which she managed very well and reflecting as well changing the crummy incident to a positive fashion making a brighter and a happier day for all involved in the incident.

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DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Celebrating Hilda 90th Birthday Bash - September 13, 2012

DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Celebrating Hilda 90th Birthday Bash - September 13, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Hilda celebrated her 90th Birthday in a grand fashion with several delicious cakes at the Senior Home in Thornhill with friends and adopted families. 

Hilda came to Canada almost 60 years back from Ruhr, Germany. She remains fuddy-duddy spinster as her fiance a German soldier was a war debacle and till her retirement worked in the health-care sector. We wish Hilda well and a very long life ~ GOD BLESS HER.

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DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Khalid Puri - First Visit To Canada

DTN News - SPECIAL REPORT: Khalid Puri - First Visit To Canada

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Khalid (with sunglasses) from London, UK., first trip to Canada (Vancouver & Toronto) is for 9 days and on our meeting he was full accolades for first leg of journey to Vancouver. 

I have known him since 1967 (almost 45 years) when I was in London with my elder brother., his parental domain is Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Best of Luck my friend Khalid for the coming years. 

Seen are K. V. Seth and Khalid Puri (with sunglasses) in Toronto on September, 2012

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Prince William, third right, signs a plaque while his wife, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, second left, looks on during the launch of the first aero engine and fan blades produced at the Rolls-Royce plant in Singapore on Sept. 12, 2012. 

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, reacts after officiating a launch event at the Rolls-Royce plant in Singapore on Sept. 12, 2012. She pushed the final fan blade into the first Trent 1000 Aero to be produced at the plant.

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, tour the Rolls-Royce Seletar Campus during their Diamond Jubilee tour on Sept. 12, 2012, at Seletar Aerospace Park in Singapore. 

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, visit Gardens by the Bay on Sept. 12, 2012, in Singapore. 

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, tour the Orchid Garden within the Singapore Botanical Gardens in Singapore on Sept. 11, 2012. 

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Prince William and his wife, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, center, are greeted as they arrive at the VIP terminal of Changi International Airport on Sept. 11, 2012, in Singapore. 

The British royal couple is on an official three-day trip to Singapore. 

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: As the sun cut through Singapore's sticky morning mist, William and Kate arrived at the Kranji war memorial in Singapore, where nearly 4500 World War II casualties are buried or commemorated. 

The site also bears the names of over 24,000 Commonwealth servicemen with the land air forces who have no known grave on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. 

(Photo - Herald Sun)

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: As the sun cut through Singapore's sticky morning mist, William and Kate arrived at the Kranji war memorial in Singapore, where nearly 4500 World War II casualties are buried or commemorated. 

The site also bears the names of over 24,000 Commonwealth servicemen with the land air forces who have no known grave on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. 

(Photo - Herald Sun)

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: William And Kate In Singapore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 13, 2012: Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are welcomed by a lion dance performance during their visit to Strathmore Green, a precinct in Queenstown, a residential district of Singapore on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. 

Britain's royal couple are on a nine-day tour of the Far East and South Pacific. 

(AP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri, Pool)

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DTN News - SOUTH KOREA DEFENSE NEWS: South Korea Has Selected BAE Systems To Upgrade The Avionics And Electronic Systems For Its Fleet of F-16 Aircraft

DTN News - SOUTH KOREA DEFENSE NEWS: South Korea Has Selected BAE Systems To Upgrade The Avionics And Electronic Systems For Its Fleet of F-16 Aircraft

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 10, 2012: The Korean Government will deliver a Letter of Request (LOR) for BAE Systems’ U.S.-based Support Solutions business to be the sole source systems integration contractor for upgrading more than 130 F-16s. The work will be contracted through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Foreign Military Sales program.

“This is a strategic international win for us, significantly expanding our aircraft upgrade and modification business,” said Dave Herr, president of BAE Systems Support Solutions. “We have extensive capabilities that span across BAE Systems, and I am confident that our team offers the best value to the customer.”

The total estimated addressable market for F-16 avionics upgrades is valued at greater than $3 billion internationally, covering more than 3,000 aircraft.

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Threaten To Kill Prince Harry

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Threaten To Kill Prince Harry

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 10, 2012: The Taliban said Monday it was determined to kill Britain's Prince Harry, serving in Afghanistan four years after his previous deployment was cut short over security concerns.

A militia spokesman said the group had a "high-value plan" to attack the third in line to the British throne in southern province Helmand, one of the toughest battlefields in the 10-year war.

Prince Harry (L) is shown the Apache flight-line by a member of his squadron at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province on September 7. The Taliban said Monday it was determined to kill Harry, who is currently serving in Afghanistan.

"We will do our best to kill Prince Harry and Britain's other troops based in Helmand," the spokesman, who gave his name as Zabihullah Mujahid, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"It is not important for us to kidnap him. We will target him and we will kill him," he added.

The 27-year-old Apache helicopter pilot, who hit the headlines last month after he was 

photographed naked at a party in Las Vegas, will spend four months based at the heavily fortified Camp Bastion in Helmand.

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Taliban Threaten To Kill Prince Harry

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Taliban Threaten To Kill Prince Harry

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 10, 2012: The Taliban said Monday it was determined to kill Britain's Prince Harry, serving in Afghanistan four years after his previous deployment was cut short over security concerns.

A militia spokesman said the group had a "high-value plan" to attack the third in line to the British throne in southern province Helmand, one of the toughest battlefields in the 10-year war.

Prince Harry (L) is shown the Apache flight-line by a member of his squadron at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province on September 7. The Taliban said Monday it was determined to kill Harry, who is currently serving in Afghanistan.

"We will do our best to kill Prince Harry and Britain's other troops based in Helmand," the spokesman, who gave his name as Zabihullah Mujahid, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"It is not important for us to kidnap him. We will target him and we will kill him," he added.

The 27-year-old Apache helicopter pilot, who hit the headlines last month after he was photographed naked at a party in Las Vegas, will spend four months based at the heavily fortified Camp Bastion in Helmand.

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DTN News - CHINA NEWS: Chinese River Turns Red, And Nobody Is Quite Sure Why

DTN News - CHINA NEWS: Chinese River Turns Red, And Nobody Is Quite Sure Why

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 8, 2012: A stretch of China's Yangtze River has mysteriously turned red around the city of Chongquin. Officials are investigating the river's transformation, as nobody is quite sure what caused it. The river began turning the color of a nice marinara sauce on Thursday.

The Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world traditionally known as the "golden watercourse," mysteriously blushed for the first time on Sept. 6. Residents in the surrounding area near the city of Chongqing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River, literally stopped in their tracks when they noticed their once golden river had turned a shocking shade of red.

Nobody is quite sure what caused the color change, but residents carefully crept down to the riverbanks on Thursday and Friday to save some of the red river water in bottles, likely for posterity's sake. When they lifted their bottles from their water, Chinese citizens were surprised to find the water was completely opaque and had a similar orange-red appearance as tomato juice.

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Quote of The Day ~ Problems

Quote of The Day ~ Problems

Always welcome the problems

Because problems give you dual advice

First, you know how to solve it

Second, you know how to avoid it in future

By Dr. Roger Smith

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. DoD Awarded Contract To Oshkosh Corp., For 207 MTVR Related To Navy And Marine Corps

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. DoD Awarded Contract To Oshkosh Corp., For 207 MTVR Related To Navy And Marine Corps 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 5, 2012: Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded $67,540,517 for fixed-price delivery order #0007 under previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (M67854-12-D-0209).  

This delivery order is issued for the purchase of 207 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) production cargo vehicles for the Marine Corps, 60 MTVR cargo vehicles for the Navy Seabees, Nonrecurring Engineering, and Federal Retail Excise Tax for 299 cargo vehicles.  

Work will be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., and is expected to be completed by Aug. 29, 2014.  Contract funds in the amount of $37,594,595 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.  

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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 5, 2012

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 5, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 5, 2012: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued  September 5, 2012   are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY                        

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $26,000,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) for DDG 1000 class services.  This modification provides additional class services associated with the detail design and construction of DDG 1000 class ships.  This work will provide technical and industrial engineering in the interpretation and application of the detail design to support construction and the maintenance of the ship design.   Work will be performed in Bath, Maine, and is expected to be completed by March 2013.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington DC., is the contracting activity. 

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: ISAF Senior Leader Outlines ‘Insider Threat’ Response

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: ISAF Senior Leader Outlines ‘Insider Threat’ Response

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 5, 2012: Coalition forces and Afghan government leaders are attacking the issue of insider threats in Afghanistan on several levels, a top commander in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said today.

Army Lt. Gen. James L. Terry, commander of ISAF Joint Command, spoke with Pentagon reporters via satellite from the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Insider attacks, which have cost 45 ISAF lives so far this year, occur when an Afghan soldier or policeman, or an enemy impersonating one, deliberately kills or injures a coalition member. Terry told reporters the degree of insurgent involvement in such attacks varies.

“I sense these actions are driven by fear of an increasingly stronger and more capable Afghan national security force … [as the] insurgency is continuously degraded and discredited,” the general said.

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DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China's Xi Cancels Clinton Meeting: US official

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China's Xi Cancels Clinton Meeting: US official

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 5, 2012: China's likely next president Xi Jinping has cancelled a meeting with the visiting US Secretary of State, a US official said Wednesday, amid friction between the two global powers.

Hillary Clinton had been due to meet Vice President Xi later Wednesday during a brief visit to Beijing that looks set to be dominated by a series of territorial disputes between China and its neighbours, notably in the South China Sea.

"We were informed after 11:00 pm last night by the Chinese side that for unexpected scheduling reasons, the meeting between Vice President Xi and Secretary Clinton is not going to happen today," said the official, who requested anonymity.

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