Raytheon has developed and tested a new conventional warhead technology to defeat hardened and deeply buried bunkers. The new technology, called Tandem Warhead System, consists of a shaped-charge precursor warhead combined with a follow- through penetrator explosive charge.
During a Jan. 31 test, the newly developed 1,000-pound-class warhead set a record when it punched through 19 [...]

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Still, China’s hunger for natural resources is creating plenty of problems. Most of them, though, are in China, not abroad.
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These are not just inconveniences, but also an enormous drag on society. Each year, they [pollution] make millions sick, cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths, sap agricultural yields and so on. Pan Yue, a deputy [...]

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In an era of globalization, no country is immune when the United States falls onto hard times. Here’s a look at how economies elsewhere will fare.
China: The world’s fastest-growing economy can’t help but be affected when the world’s largest economy slows down, since China relies on exports to the United States as one of its [...]

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Israel has secretly warned Syria that it may strike the country if Hizbullah attacks the Jewish state, Reuters reported on Friday.
In early February Hizbullah threatened Israel with revenge following the assassination of the group’s chief of operations, Imad Mughniyeh. Israel has denied involvement in his death.
According to senior Israeli and European officials quoted by the [...]

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What we know for sure is that it has a range of 11,000 kilometers, without refueling, but it could refuel if it wanted to–possibly. In any case, it has extra-large fuel tanks. It has a crew of two and travels at Mach 1.2, or maybe 1.4. It carries an 18-ton bomb payload and/or 12 [...]

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As Israel’s enemies see the Palestine problem, the Jewish state, with the weakest and most unpopular prime minister in its history and an army that failed in the second Lebanon war, is in political, military and public-relations free fall. Its military neither intimidates nor defeats its enemies. In spite of repeated assassinations, barrages and incursions, [...]

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Hugo Chávez is on an arms-buying spree. Chávez has already bought $3.4 billion[1] worth of Russian weapons, including “100,000 AK-103s and AK-104 assault rifles, a munitions factory, 53 helicopters–including a dozen Mi-17 military helicopters–and 24 SU-30MK fighter jets.”[2] Venezuela is negotiating a multi-billion dollar, multi-year contract to purchase from Russia “five Project 636 Kilo-class diesel [...]

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Russia has stepped up military activity over the North Atlantic in the past 18 months, Iceland’s prime minister told Reuters, sending long-range bombers through the region no less than 12 times.
“We have not seen much increased naval activity. There have been some exercises but there has been more aviation activity,” Prime Minister Geir Haarde said [...]

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The arm-flexing has caused newspapers around the world to start talking about a possible boycott of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.
“This incident fully reflects the Chinese government’s characteristics: dictatorship and bullying. Such a government won’t tolerate the Tibetan people in their pursuit of speech of freedom,” pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian told a crowd in [...]

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