News Desk, Monday 6 March, 2006

[Posted on: Mon Mar 6th, 2006]
Australia will, over the next three months, consider proposals for initial funding for Phase I of it's "Project Air 7000", a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) multi-mission maritime unmanned air vehicle.
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[Posted on: Mon Mar 6th, 2006]
Kirtland AFB, N.M. - When launched in 2010, a football-field-in-length demonstrator radar antenna, weighing more than 5 tons, will serve as the forerunner for the future of America's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets in space.
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[Posted on: Mon Mar 6th, 2006]
The new generation of electronically scanned (E-Scan) radar systems has moved from lab tests to field trials when the first successful airborne operational test of Euroradar's CAESAR fighter radar system took place over Wiltshire in the UK.
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[Posted on: Mon Mar 6th, 2006]
To increase it's strength and capability "to fight a defensive war", China has increased it's defense budget by 14.7% to 283.8 billion yuan (about 35.1 billion U.S. dollars).
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[Posted on: Mon Mar 6th, 2006]
For 16 years, Aviation Week & Space Technology has investigated myriad sightings of a two-stage-to-orbit system that could place a small military spaceplane in orbit. Considerable evidence supports the existence of such a highly classified system, and top Pentagon officials have hinted that it's
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[Posted on: Mon Mar 6th, 2006]
NASA's proposed 2007 budget, which cuts back funding for science programs, has been harshly criticized by the professional astronomy community. Brian Dewhurst explains how this is the inevitable outcome of a shift from a science-oriented to mission-oriented agency.
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