US warships moving into position for satellite shoot down
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A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down a defunct US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
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The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March, The Associated Press has learned.
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Ships from Japan, the United States, Australia and France steamed out to sea under cloudy skies on Tuesday for Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called hostile and provocative.
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The US may try to shoot down a falling spy satellite as early as Thursday, before it enters Earth's atmosphere.
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The U.S. and Japanese navies have  worked out common rules for their advanced warships designed to  shoot down enemy ballistic missiles, the U.S. Navy's Pacific  Fleet said on Friday ahead of a milestone test.
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Moscow, 26 December: Three satellites of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) have been put into orbit as planned.
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The United States is moving forward with missile shield talks with Poland and the Czech Republic, as it explores the idea of a joint radar base with Russia, NATO and US officials said Thursday.
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The U.S. Navy's oldest ship in full active service embarks on its last major maneuvers
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American forces moved into position Friday for a decisive battle with bands of insurgents, pounding some of their last strongholds with airstrikes and repelling attempts
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The United States, Japan, and South Korea have increased security measures after detecting signs of a possible North Korean test launch of its Rohdong ballistic missile (range: approximately 1,300km).
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The United States pledged on Friday to compensate countries if debris lands on their territory from a dying U.S. spy satellite that the Pentagon plans to shoot down.
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American Naval forces were involved in two high-profile, but apparently unrelated, incidents in the Persian Gulf region since Sunday:
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Japan uses a ship-based defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile, the first such test by a US ally.
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The Pentagon has begun reviewing old satellite images of a weapons facility south of Baghdad to see whether analysts can determine when nearly 380
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The U.S. Navy may make its first  attempt to shoot down an errant spy satellite loaded with toxic  fuel overnight on Wednesday in an area of the Pacific Ocean  west of Hawaii, according to U.S. officials and government  documents.
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The U.S. military does not  anticipate trying to shoot apart a defunct spy satellite on  Wednesday due to rough seas in the Pacific Ocean, a senior  military official said.
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Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon said Thursday it will try to shoot down a dying, bus-size U.S. spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel on a collision course with the Earth.