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When the Marines deploy a tank company to Afghanistan this month, the tanks will have a new Forward Observer/Forward Air Controller radio configuration.
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) responded to the fleet's needs and launched a website Nov. 30 for increasing product data availability, accuracy and accessibility.
President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday that a new arms race would be sparked within the next decade unless Russia and the West forged an agreement to cooperate on building a missile defense system.
The Pentagon's report on its Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy barring gays from serving openly in the military is due out today, and supporters of the policy already have been discrediting it.
Secretive North Korea detailed for the first time Tuesday its expanded nuclear program--saying it had thousands of centrifuges--as pressure built on China to rein in its ally amid heightened tensions on the peninsula.
Americans are more positive about U.S. progress in the war in Afghanistan now than at any point in the past year. Still, the majority believe things are going badly for the U.S. there. Given a choice, Americans prefer no timetable for U.S. withdrawal.
Defense Department scientists are set to conduct a second test launch next year of the Falcon HTV-2 experimental superweapon after the first flight this year ended when the autopilot deliberately crashed the unmanned glider into the ocean.
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday Russia was looking to open new naval bases abroad to increase the global reach of a military that shrunk abruptly when the Soviet Union collapsed.