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X-51A flight ends prematurely
The X-51A Waverider successfully launched from an Air Force B-52 bomber over Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center Sea Range Aug. 14 at approximately 11:36 a.m. PST. The X-51 safely separated from the B-52 and the rocket booster fired as planned. However after 16 seconds, a fault was identified with one of the cruiser control fins. ...
Department of Defense Certifies Key Energy Investments Support Increased Combat Capability
The Department of Defense’s proposed budget supports the military’s operational energy goals according to a report released today titled "Energy Investments for Military Operations: for Fiscal Year 2013." ...
Report Details Military's Energy Investments
In the second report of its kind, a top DOD official has certified that the Defense Department's proposed 2013-2017 budget effectively funds initiatives to give troops better energy options. ...
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China Slams Western Involvement in S. China Sea Issue
China is responding to accusations that it scuttled Southeast Asian unity over the South China Sea by lashing out at what it calls Western meddling among rival claimants. The Obama administration, though, says China should not pursue a 'divide-and-conquer' strategy in the maritime standoff. ...
Air Strike Kills At Least 20 In Northern Syria; Blast Rocks Damascus
The Syrian opposition says at least 20 people have been killed in a government air strike on a rebel bastion in northern Syria.
Taiwan rules out cooperation with China on Tiaoyutai issue
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) flatly rejected Wednesday a proposal by some activists that Taipei should cooperate with Beijing in asserting its sovereignty over the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea. ...
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Taiwan's vice president is spending an unusually long four days in the United States this month, a move that would once have drawn formal protests from China. Vice President Wu Den-yih stopped in New York for private meetings on his way to visit allied nations in Latin America, and will stay in Los Angeles on the way home. Taiwan's diplomatic ...
Japanese Ministers Visit Controversial War Shrine Two Japanese cabinet ministers have visited a controversial war shrine seen by many as a symbol of Tokyo's imperialist past, in a move likely to anger neighboring China and South Korea. ...
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