Category Archives: Foreign Non-Coalition

Foreign Non-Coalition, Iran, Joint Combatant Commands, Policy, Soutwest Asia, Space

Quicklinks: security and defense news for Sept. 11, 2009

Armed Forces News Service: Task force created on 9/11 still guards New York.

Iran offers a plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons worldwide, and prevent proliferation.

Politics Daily reports on information ops in Afghanistan.

Washington Times: Al Qaeda still “determined foe”.

Reuters: US will stick to Iraqi pullout plans.

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Foreign Non-Coalition, Sensors

Pakistan to build its own UAVs, abandoning US purchase

UPI reports that Pakistan will manufacture its own UAVs, after having sought UAVs from the US. The Pakistani military will collaborate with the Italian firm Selex Galileo to manufacture the UAV domestically at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra in Punjab province.

Military cooperation with Pakistan has been souring recently, as the Obama administration has admonished Pakistan for modifying Harpoon missiles to strike land targets (like the Boeing’s SLAM ER, which is also based on the Harpoon).  Pakistan’s foreign minister denied that Pakistan had made modifications to the missiles, which could in theory be used to strike targets in India.

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