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China chooses first women astronautsBeijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The women were part of a "second batch" of seven people who will take over manned space-flight duties from the nation's first generation of astronauts, Xinhua news agency quoted a former top space programme official as saying. The two women, who were not named in the report, were both pilots in the People's L ... read more |
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Johnson City NY (SPX) Mar 11, 2010BAE Systems has received a contract to develop an onboard vehicle power management system designed to improve U.S. Marine Corps mission effectiveness by significantly increasing electric power available to ground forces. The contract calls for installation of a power management system in a government-furnished High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle for test and evaluation by the Marine ... more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 10, 2010A Russian-Indian fifth-generation fighter jet could be developed by 2015-2016, a Russian defense industry official said on Tuesday. Moscow and New Delhi are expected to sign a contract on a joint development of the new fighter in the near future, focusing on the design concept and technical requirements put forward by India. "I hope that we will be able to build a joint fifth-generat ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2010The Army's new high-tech UH-60 Black Hawk M-model helicopter - equipped with a stronger engine, a digital cockpit and composite rotor blades - performed exceptionally well in Afghanistan during its first major combat deployment, according to a recently completed After Action Review at Fort Campbell, Ky., service officials said. "The M-model Black Hawks were in Afghanistan for 12 months. Th ... more |
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Feared gangs regrouping to prey on quake-hit Haiti: policePort-Au-Prince (AFP) March 10, 2010 Haiti's notoriously violent street gangs are regrouping in the rubble of the capital Port-au-Prince, led by hardcore convicts who escaped in January's earthquake, police told AFP. "There is no doubt: most of the escapees are now holed up in Cite Soleil," a police inspector in that devastated city slum, Rosemond Aristide, said. "These escapees are a danger for the population. They're armed," he warned. "We're looking for them. We've already located around 20. But we dare not go in after them ... read more |
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