Premier Calls for Use of High Technologies in Air Defense Construction

Xinhua News Agency;  November 8, 2000 ;     250 words ......Premier Zhu Rongji Urged Wednesday for air defense construction to employ high technology...anti-airraid capability of the nation. Air defense facilities should be constructed continuously...at the fourth national conference on air defense which ends Wednesday in Beijing. Zhu...

Defense Minister Urges Building of Air Defense Facilities

Xinhua News Agency;  May 8, 2000 ;     188 words ......accelerating the pace of building the country's air defense facilities by adhering to the theory...forum on regional hi- tech warfare and air defense, which was attended by officials and...address, Chi highlighted the importance of air defense and urged the adoption of new thinking...

Russian army to be armed with new air defense system in 2008

Xinhua News Agency;  April 12, 2007 ;     240 words ...Russian army to be armed with new air defense system in 2008 MOSCOW, April 12 (Xinhua...will receive the first models of a new air defense missile-gun system next year, deputy...system will be used together with the air defense missile system S400. "Pantsir will be...

Air defense puts it together

Army;  June 1, 1997 ;     431 words ...Air defense was one of the success stories of the...Center. Officers manning the EXFOR's air defense system saw as much as a 60 percent improvement...officer of Battery A, Ist Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery, during the AWE. "We have been...

China establishes air defense command academy

Xinhua News Agency;  June 14, 2004 ;     113 words ...China establishes air defense command academy ZHENGZHOU, June...inaugural ceremony of the first air defense command academy of the People's...China's Henan Province. In 1987, the air defense force became an independent branch...

Army has $11 billion plan for air defense

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 19, 1986 ;     354 words ......to spend about $11 billion on a new air defense system, including $3.5 billion for a...consistently malfunctioning. The new air defense will incorporate weapons ranging from...James Starkey, chief of the Army's air defense team, said these weapons will be coordinated...

U.S., NATO PILOTS FACE AIR DEFENSE THREAT

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  March 24, 1999 ;     366 words ......and NATO pilots will face a serious air defense threat in Yugoslavia, Pentagon spokesman...Yugoslavia's fairly substantial and redundant air defense system, built primarily with Soviet...Currently, Serb forces are dispersing air defense assets in light of the imminent air...

Malaysia Acquires Air Defense Missile Systems

Xinhua News Agency;  April 10, 2002 ;     340 words ......two contracts for the purchase of two air defense missile system packages worth some one...procurement of a Jernas short- range air defense missile system from MBDA (UK) Ltd. The...Malaysia's first truly-dedicated low-level air defense system. TheJernas is currently in service...

Writethru: Russia helping Iran build up air defense: Deputy FM

Xinhua News Agency;  December 27, 2007 ;     291 words ...Writethru: Russia helping Iran build up air defense: Deputy FM MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (Xinhua...assisting Iran to strengthen the country's air defense capability, Russia's deputy foreign...assisting in work to reinforce Iran's air defense systems," Alexander Losyukov was quoted...

New Logo for Chinese Civil Air Defense

Xinhua English Newswire;  April 25, 1999 ;     107 words ......has been designed for Chinese Civil Air Defense. The design, approved by the State Council...golden frame consists of pictures of air defense constructions. A golden great wall in the design highlights the fact that civil air defense is part of national defense and a green...

SADDAM MEETS AIR DEFENSE OFFICIALS, SPECIALISTS

Xinhua English Newswire;  March 2, 1999 ;     208 words ......officials to discuss issues related to air defense, the Iraqi News Agency reported. The...ministers of oil and military industry, air defense commander and a number of specialists in the air defense field, said INA. But it did not elaborate...

Russia to deploy air defense missiles to Belarus

AP Worldstream;  February 9, 2006 ;     186 words ......Dateline: MOSCOW Russia will deploy four air defense units in western Belarus next month...Putin ordered four units of the S-300PS air defense missiles moved to Belarus' western border...miles) away, would significantly bolster air defense capabilities of the Russian-Belarusian...

Russia to Complete Tests of New Air Defense System in 2001

Xinhua News Agency;  October 24, 2000 ;     205 words ......complete the testing of a new advanced air defense system, C-400, for replacing the current...presidential decree is to become the common air defense system for Russian armed forces. Ashurbeili...development of a new medium and short range air defense system Vityaz to replace the Buk ...

Russia to sell air defense systems to Iran

Xinhua News Agency;  May 26, 2006 ;     227 words ...Russia to sell air defense systems to Iran MOSCOW, May 26 (Xinhua...to supply its sophisticated Tor-M1 air defense systems to Iran, the Russian Defense...the supply of Tor-M1 close-range air defense systems to Iran," he said. "The contract...

New air defense systems to be deployed in August: Russian commander

Xinhua News Agency;  April 5, 2007 ;     238 words ...New air defense systems to be deployed in August: Russian...commander MOSCOW, April 5 (Xinhua) -- New air defense missile systems will be put on combat...around Moscow in late August, a senior air defense commander said Thursday. "We are expecting...