Firms chosen to build anti-missile defense
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Teams led by BAE Systems and Northrup Grumman were chosen Wednesday to build and test prototypes for anti-missile systems to defend US commercial planes against shoulder-fired rockets.
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The United States may start building a  missile shield in Poland in February 2008, Polish Deputy  Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said in an interview  published in a Russian newspaper on Monday.
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BAE Systems PLC  and Northrop Grumman Corp. won $45 million contracts yesterday to develop prototypes of anti-missile technology that could protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
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Defense contractor tests system designed to protect airliners from laser-guided shoulder-fired missiles.
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JINCE, Czech Republic  - Once a frontline Soviet base, the Brdy military complex could host part of a planned U.S. anti-missile shield and local residents feel they are back in the firing line.
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The Defense Department has picked five companies, four of them from the Washington area, for a contract to support the Pentagon's counter-narcoterrorism activities. The government may spend as much as $15 billion through the five-year contract.
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The defense sector is busy with work on solid-state lasers that could shoot artillery shells out of the sky.
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EDGESVILLE, W.Va., Aug. 17 - Saying he was &quot;living in the future,&quot; President Bush promoted his plans for a missile defense system on Tuesday and said that its opponents were putting the nation&#39;s security at risk, as he courted ...
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Tokyo needs to bolster its missile defence to counter the threat from North Korea, Japan's defence ministry says.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Washington is putting subtle, but real pressure on Canada to join a proposed missile defence system that won't work anyway, an American scientist says. Ted Postol, a physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says U.S. authorities warn that Canada will lose its say in continental defence if it takes a pass on the missile system.
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Poland wants a bilateral pact and  improved air defenses as part of any deal to become the first  ballistic missile-defense hub outside of the United States, its  defense minister said on Wednesday.
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A U.S. Navy destroyer with  long-range missile-tracking equipment has begun patrols in the  Sea of Japan, officials said on Friday, in a key step toward  forming a missile-defense system intended to guard against  attack by nations like North Korea.
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Polish and Czech leaders spoke on Monday in favor of allowing the United States to use their territory for parts of an anti-missile defense system that has raised Russian ire, saying it would also protect Europe.
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The five top U.S. defense  contractors, communications companies joined on Tuesday with  some European rivals to develop technology standards that will  allow better communication among future weapons systems.
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MOSCOW - New nuclear weapons systems being developed in Russia could include a missile designed to defeat the US missile defence shield.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia has risked upsetting its regional neighbors with a decision to add long-range stealth missiles to its defense arsenal.
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Up to three American Airlines jets will be outfitted this spring with laser technology being developed to protect planes from missiles fired by terrorists.