Stories tagged "defence"

By now it's old news that World Cup qualifiers this weekend will deprive Toronto FC of nine of its top players, and have left the squad with just a lone defender.

The Ministry of Defence has been accused by MPs of masking the true costs of military spending. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee says transferring costs of major projects between budgets makes it impossible to assess value for money.

Just when you thought oil and food prices, the property price collapse and credit squeeze were all you had to worry about …? You'd forgotten about NATO v WARSAW PACT. (aka USA v Russia)

S-300 is a state of the art Russian anti-aircraft defense system. Russia denies selling Iran the system. Israeli defense has said Iran are to receive it in '08, the Pentagon thinks they will get it, but not this year. Only then it gets more complex....

"While they are deploying their missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will be already landing in Cuba," a high-ranked military aviation official told the Izvestia newspaper.

Star Wars-style technology is about to take to the battlefield for the first time with the launch of a laser system to shoot down enemy missiles and mortars.

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Defend against 50 waves of creeps by building towers to prevent their passage! You have 7 different towers to choose from and each have their strengths and weaknesses. Choose Wisely! You will start with 20 lives with top-ups at the item shop.

Ministers are urged to invest in a radio system developed during World War Two as a back-up to GPS.

A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay.