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Virtual Flight On A Robotic ArmBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2010 Only Andreas Knoblach's legs hang out from under the cover of the 'cockpit'. They are dangling five metres above the ground while the enormous robotic arm slowly swivels the virtual-reality 'capsule' and its occupant and moves along a track in front of a large screen. Mountains, valleys and meadows are visible. Knoblach can see the same scene on a screen in front of him. He is about to begin a flight that simulates everything. It lasts only a few minutes and he has already turned upside down and b ... read more |
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  Israel to boost Tel Aviv's missile shield Israel's military has begun constructing a third battery of long-range, high-altitude Arrow anti-missile interceptors near Tel Aviv to boost defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. ... more | .. |
  Space Fence Program Completes Critical Milestone Raytheon Company has completed a successful system design review (SDR) for the Space Fence program. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to track and de ... more | .. |
  British watchdog says Google 'Street View' broke law Google committed a "signficant breach" of British law when its Street View cars grabbed personal data but the Internet giant will not be fined, the country's information commissoner said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Samsung aims to sell 1 million Galaxy Tabs by year's end South Korea's Samsung Electronics Thursday launched its tablet computer in the domestic market and said it aims to sell more than a million of the Galaxy Tabs worldwide by the end of this year. ... more |
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 Holographic video takes step forward with updated display Optical scientists said Wednesday they had taken an important step nearer towards 3-D holographic video, a technology with innumerable outlets in entertainment, conferencing, telemedicine and advertising. ... more | .. |
  British government refers NewsCorp's BSkyB bid to regulator British Business Secretary Vince Cable said on Thursday that he has referred News Corp's bid for control of pay-TV giant BSkyB to media regulator Ofcom over concerns about concentration in the media sector. ... more | .. |
  Dassault ready to work with BAE on drones French aerospace firm Dassault is ready to work with Britain's BAE Systems to build a new generation of military drones, Dassault said Tuesday, as France and Britain signed a new defence treaty. ... more | .. |
  GPS maker Garmin hanging up on smartphones GPS maker Garmin is abandoning the smart phone business after failing to find its way in the highly competitive sector with a handset released a year ago. ... more |
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 Russian MPs cool on missile treaty after US vote: official A Russian parliamentary committee has withdrawn its recommendation to ratify a new nuclear disarmament treaty with the United States after the results of the mid-term polls, an official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Video Captures ABM Capabilities Of Distributed Aperture System For F-35 Northrop Grumman has released a video showing the successful detection and tracking of a two-stage rocket launch at a distance exceeding 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) with the company's AN/AAQ-37 Dis ... more | .. |
  ViaSat Sets New 4 Mbps Return Link Standard For Ku-Band ISR Satcom ViaSat has completed operational testing of an airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) satcom system that is providing transmission of 4 Mbit/sec through a high-speed return li ... more | .. |
 Orbital Launches MRT For Joint US/Japan Missile Defense Test Orbital Sciences has announced that it successfully launched a Medium Range Target (MRT) vehicle under a direct contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The MRT vehicle served as an inte ... more |
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 Japan Achieves Third Ballistic Missile Intercept The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) achieved its third ballistic missile intercept using a Raytheon Standard Missile-3. During Thursday's test, which marked the 18th SM-3 intercept, the ... more | .. |
  BAE Reaches Milestone With Modernized Howitzer Vehicles BAE Systems has delivered seven Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) prototype vehicles to the U.S. Army on schedule. PIM is the latest howitzer in the M109 Paladin family of vehicles. BAE Syst ... more | .. |
 US Army Building Smarter Robots The U.S. Army is exploring ways to upgrade its fleet of roughly 3,000 small tactical robots in Iraq and Afghanistan designed to safeguard Soldiers by clearing buildings and caves and using sensors t ... more | .. |
 LM TRACER Begins Test Flights Aboard Predator B MQ-9 UAS A milestone has been achieved, the first flight of Lockheed Martin's Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar (TRACER) aboard an MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. The milestone ... more |
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  ManTech Awarded US Army Contract To Provide ECCS In Afghanistan ManTech International has announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to provide Expeditionary Cellular Communications Service (ECCS) in Afghanistan. The contract is value ... more | .. |
 Hughes Undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM Certification Hughes Network Systems has announced its HX System for land mobile, maritime and airborne communications-on-the-move (COTM) is undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) certification by the U.S. Strat ... more | .. |
 US Army Plans Large Manned-Unmanned Demo The U.S. Army is planning a largest-of-its-kind demonstration - called Manned Unmanned Systems Integration Concept, or MUSIC - at Dougway Proving Ground, Utah, in September of next year, service off ... more | .. |
 IAI Awarded Contract For ELM-2105 Radar Based Border Protection Systems Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded a contract worth $9 million (USD) to provide a foreign customer with its ELM-2105 radar-based border protection system. The radar, which is p ... more |
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 ORBIT To Supply Tri-Band Telemetry Tracking Systems To Patuxent River USNAWC ORBIT Communication Systems has announced the award of a contract for the supply of two Tri-Band (L/S/C) Telemetry Tracking Systems. The order was placed by the Telemetry Branch, Atlantic Test Range ... more | .. |
 Three US drone strikes kill 11 militants in Pakistan At least 11 militants were killed in three US drone missile strikes targeting Islamist fighters in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday, security officials said. ... more | .. |
 After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. ... more | .. |
  UN raises winter funds alarm in flood-hit Pakistan The United Nations on Wednesday expressed increasing alarm over sluggish funds for Pakistan's 21 million flood victims, appealing to donors to act swiftly to stave off a new winter emergency. ... more |
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