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SEOUL — A U.S. military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea during a training mission March 21 but its pilot ejected to safety, U.S. authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon near a U.S. air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

SEOUL — A U.S. military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea during a training mission March 21 but its pilot ejected to safety, U.S. authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon near a U.S. air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

SEOUL — A U.S. military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea during a training mission March 21 but its pilot ejected to safety, U.S. authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon near a U.S. air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

SEOUL — A U.S. military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea during a training mission March 21 but its pilot ejected to safety, U.S. authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon near a U.S. air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

SEOUL — A U.S. military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea during a training mission March 21 but its pilot ejected to safety, U.S. authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon near a U.S. air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

SEOUL — A U.S. military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea during a training mission March 21 but its pilot ejected to safety, U.S. authorities said. The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon near a U.S. air base in the western port city of Gunsan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

Denmark’s Defense Ministry plans to discuss a number of multinational security cooperation efforts at NATO’s May summit in Chicago that could address European and alliance security gaps as worldwide military spending declines in the coming decade. “I’m thinking about air policing, closer cooperation on transport aircraft and joint procurement, and stockpiling of ammunition,” Danish Defense [...]

Denmark’s Defense Ministry plans to discuss a number of multinational security cooperation efforts at NATO’s May summit in Chicago that could address European and alliance security gaps as worldwide military spending declines in the coming decade. “I’m thinking about air policing, closer cooperation on transport aircraft and joint procurement, and stockpiling of ammunition,” Danish Defense [...]

Denmark’s Defense Ministry plans to discuss a number of multinational security cooperation efforts at NATO’s May summit in Chicago that could address European and alliance security gaps as worldwide military spending declines in the coming decade. “I’m thinking about air policing, closer cooperation on transport aircraft and joint procurement, and stockpiling of ammunition,” Danish Defense [...]

Denmark’s Defense Ministry plans to discuss a number of multinational security cooperation efforts at NATO’s May summit in Chicago that could address European and alliance security gaps as worldwide military spending declines in the coming decade. “I’m thinking about air policing, closer cooperation on transport aircraft and joint procurement, and stockpiling of ammunition,” Danish Defense [...]

Denmark’s Defense Ministry plans to discuss a number of multinational security cooperation efforts at NATO’s May summit in Chicago that could address European and alliance security gaps as worldwide military spending declines in the coming decade. “I’m thinking about air policing, closer cooperation on transport aircraft and joint procurement, and stockpiling of ammunition,” Danish Defense [...]

Denmark’s Defense Ministry plans to discuss a number of multinational security cooperation efforts at NATO’s May summit in Chicago that could address European and alliance security gaps as worldwide military spending declines in the coming decade. “I’m thinking about air policing, closer cooperation on transport aircraft and joint procurement, and stockpiling of ammunition,” Danish Defense [...]

TOKYO — Japan is set to deploy surface-to-air missiles in central Tokyo in readiness for North Korea’s planned rocket launch, its defense minister said March 26. The siting of an anti-missile battery in the densely packed capital city would be in addition to facilities on the southern island chain of Okinawa, Naoki Tanaka told lawmakers. [...]

TOKYO — Japan is set to deploy surface-to-air missiles in central Tokyo in readiness for North Korea’s planned rocket launch, its defense minister said March 26. The siting of an anti-missile battery in the densely packed capital city would be in addition to facilities on the southern island chain of Okinawa, Naoki Tanaka told lawmakers. [...]

TOKYO — Japan is set to deploy surface-to-air missiles in central Tokyo in readiness for North Korea’s planned rocket launch, its defense minister said March 26. The siting of an anti-missile battery in the densely packed capital city would be in addition to facilities on the southern island chain of Okinawa, Naoki Tanaka told lawmakers. [...]

TOKYO — Japan is set to deploy surface-to-air missiles in central Tokyo in readiness for North Korea’s planned rocket launch, its defense minister said March 26. The siting of an anti-missile battery in the densely packed capital city would be in addition to facilities on the southern island chain of Okinawa, Naoki Tanaka told lawmakers. [...]

TOKYO — Japan is set to deploy surface-to-air missiles in central Tokyo in readiness for North Korea’s planned rocket launch, its defense minister said March 26. The siting of an anti-missile battery in the densely packed capital city would be in addition to facilities on the southern island chain of Okinawa, Naoki Tanaka told lawmakers. [...]

TOKYO — Japan is set to deploy surface-to-air missiles in central Tokyo in readiness for North Korea’s planned rocket launch, its defense minister said March 26. The siting of an anti-missile battery in the densely packed capital city would be in addition to facilities on the southern island chain of Okinawa, Naoki Tanaka told lawmakers. [...]

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister ordered federal investigators March 26 to investigate revelations by the country’s top military officer that he had been offered a $2.8 million bribe to clear a procurement deal. The disclosure, made in a newspaper interview by Army Chief General V.K Singh, could further embarrass a government already tainted by [...]

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister ordered federal investigators March 26 to investigate revelations by the country’s top military officer that he had been offered a $2.8 million bribe to clear a procurement deal. The disclosure, made in a newspaper interview by Army Chief General V.K Singh, could further embarrass a government already tainted by [...]

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister ordered federal investigators March 26 to investigate revelations by the country’s top military officer that he had been offered a $2.8 million bribe to clear a procurement deal. The disclosure, made in a newspaper interview by Army Chief General V.K Singh, could further embarrass a government already tainted by [...]

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister ordered federal investigators March 26 to investigate revelations by the country’s top military officer that he had been offered a $2.8 million bribe to clear a procurement deal. The disclosure, made in a newspaper interview by Army Chief General V.K Singh, could further embarrass a government already tainted by [...]

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister ordered federal investigators March 26 to investigate revelations by the country’s top military officer that he had been offered a $2.8 million bribe to clear a procurement deal. The disclosure, made in a newspaper interview by Army Chief General V.K Singh, could further embarrass a government already tainted by [...]

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister ordered federal investigators March 26 to investigate revelations by the country’s top military officer that he had been offered a $2.8 million bribe to clear a procurement deal. The disclosure, made in a newspaper interview by Army Chief General V.K Singh, could further embarrass a government already tainted by [...]

SEOUL — The South Korean military is poised to shoot down a North Korean rocket should it stray into South Korean territory during a launch planned for next month, a defense ministry official here in Seoul said March 26. The response comes as Seoul’s intelligence authorities confirmed that the main body of a North Korean [...]

SEOUL — The South Korean military is poised to shoot down a North Korean rocket should it stray into South Korean territory during a launch planned for next month, a defense ministry official here in Seoul said March 26. The response comes as Seoul’s intelligence authorities confirmed that the main body of a North Korean [...]

SEOUL — The South Korean military is poised to shoot down a North Korean rocket should it stray into South Korean territory during a launch planned for next month, a defense ministry official here in Seoul said March 26. The response comes as Seoul’s intelligence authorities confirmed that the main body of a North Korean [...]

SEOUL — The South Korean military is poised to shoot down a North Korean rocket should it stray into South Korean territory during a launch planned for next month, a defense ministry official here in Seoul said March 26. The response comes as Seoul’s intelligence authorities confirmed that the main body of a North Korean [...]

SEOUL — The South Korean military is poised to shoot down a North Korean rocket should it stray into South Korean territory during a launch planned for next month, a defense ministry official here in Seoul said March 26. The response comes as Seoul’s intelligence authorities confirmed that the main body of a North Korean [...]

SEOUL — The South Korean military is poised to shoot down a North Korean rocket should it stray into South Korean territory during a launch planned for next month, a defense ministry official here in Seoul said March 26. The response comes as Seoul’s intelligence authorities confirmed that the main body of a North Korean [...]

While this May’s NATO summit is supposed to focus on Afghanistan and making the most out of shrinking defense budgets, several other issues will compete for world leaders’ attention. The summit, scheduled to take place in Chicago on May 20-21, was originally planned as an “implementation” summit, meant to review progress on a series of [...]

The Government Accountability Office said the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46A tanker program test schedule is too aggressive, a claim the service says is being overblown. In a March 26 report to Congress, GAO said “significant concurrency, or overlaps, among development and production activities add risk to the program.” The Air Force and Boeing, the KC-46A [...]

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea insisted March 27 it would go ahead with its satellite launch, snubbing a call from U.S. President Barack Obama to drop the plan and accusing him of a “confrontational mindset.” “We will never give up the right to launch a peaceful satellite, a legitimate right of a sovereign state [...]

OTTAWA, Canada — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hopes to strengthen security ties with Canada and Mexico when he meets his counterparts on March 27 to discuss anti-drug efforts, disaster relief and humanitarian aid. “This is the first trilateral meeting we’ll have with the United States, Canada and Mexico,” Panetta told reporters as he arrived in [...]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 15–> Although a plan to control cost growth on its new aircraft carriers is already in place, the U.S. Navy is continuing to conduct “a line-by-line review … to identify further opportunity to reduce cost and to mitigate risk,” the service told a key congressional critic. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., charged earlier [...]

STOCKHOLM — A military buildup in the Arctic by the region’s five border states is not necessarily cause for concern, Stockholm think tank SIPRI said in a report published March 26. There is “no basis for claims of an Arctic arms race,” said the author of the report, Siemon Wezeman of the Stockholm International Peace [...]

SEOUL — U.S. President Barack Obama on March 26 told President Dmitry Medvedev that he had little flexibility to address Russia’s objections to a U.S. missile defense shield before his November re-election bid. Obama was picked up on an open microphone privately explaining his position to Medvedev in an exchange heard by some reporters, during [...]

LONDON — U.K. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the government has awarded British contractor Babcock a 350 million-pound ($555.6 million) deal to refit a nuclear missile submarine during a flying visit to the company’s Devonport Dockyard facility in Plymouth on March 26. It’s not quite the big announcement Hammond had in mind. This time last [...]

NEW DELHI — Although they have been banned from conducting business with the Indian Defence Ministry for the next 10 years, Israel Military Industries (IMI) and Rhienmetall Air Defence will be among the 567 participants in Defexpo India 2012, to be held here March 29-April 1. India’s permanent defense production secretary, Shekhar Agarwal, told reporters [...]

NEW DELHI — The Indian Navy plans to boost spending by 74 percent in the next financial year to buy ships and submarines and to continue paying for its aircraft carrier. The Indian Navy has been allocated $4.77 billion, up from $2.74 billion last year. The increase comes amid an almost 18 percent hike in [...]

FRANKFURT — Rheinmetall, a specialist maker of automotive components and defense equipment, expressed confidence for its business outlook this year after achieved its best-ever results last year. “Following an excellent fiscal year in 2011, we have once again set ourselves ambitious targets this year,” said chief executive Klaus Eberhardt. “We are aiming for sales of [...]

KUALA LUMPUR — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said March 22 that he would raise North Korea’s planned rocket launch at a Seoul nuclear summit next week, expressing “deep concern” over the issue. “I am going to discuss the issue with the president of the Republic of (South Korea) in Seoul and I will also engage [...]

Three years ago, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he was recommending Congress approve the termination or truncation of 33 programs. With total contract values in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the programs collectively touched just about every state, sending lawmakers on both sides of the aisle into a frenzy over the possibility [...]

SEOUL — U.S. President Barack Obama said March 25 it was unclear who was “calling the shots” in North Korea under its new young leader and stepped up demands for Pyongyang to abort its planned rocket launch. Obama stood with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to present a united front against the communist North, hours [...]

PESHAWAR — The Pakistani Taliban on March 25 threatened to attack lawmakers if they voted in support of resuming supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, a spokesman said. Pakistan sealed its border with Afghanistan to NATO supply convoys after NATO air strikes in November killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the border, triggering outrage in Islamabad. [...]

WARSAW — Edward Nowak has been dismissed as CEO of Poland’s leading defense group, Bumar, the company said in a statement. Mariusz Andrzejczak, vice president for research and development, was appointed as acting CEO until the company’s supervisory board names Nowak’s successor, the statement said. No reasons for the decision were given. The latest move [...]

WARSAW — Edward Nowak has been dismissed as CEO of Poland’s leading defense group, Bumar, the company said in a statement. Mariusz Andrzejczak, vice president for research and development, was appointed as acting CEO until the company’s supervisory board names Nowak’s successor, the statement said. No reasons for the decision were given. The latest move [...]

The Pentagon should focus on simplifying the acquisition process while increasing the number of companies that can compete for contracts, according to recommendations from a congressional panel report released March 20. The House Armed Services Committee’s Panel on Business Challenges in the Defense Industry unveiled its 44 recommendations on how the government can improve the [...]

The Pentagon should focus on simplifying the acquisition process while increasing the number of companies that can compete for contracts, according to recommendations from a congressional panel report released March 20. The House Armed Services Committee’s Panel on Business Challenges in the Defense Industry unveiled its 44 recommendations on how the government can improve the [...]

BRASILIA, Brazil — The United States has told Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer that it will reopen bidding for 20 light support planes after canceling a contract with the company, a Brazilian minister said March 23. “They did not give official notice, but informally, they said: ‘Wait for another tender, we are expecting a new tender,’ [...]