She has toured the world, information that in London, students 'violent' attacked the car of Prince Charles and others when, on December 9, the British parliament has decided to triple the university fees because of "budget restrictions".
What has not made headlines by cons, one week only, we launched the yards of the company Bae Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, another nuclear submarine, which cost $ 2 billion. This is the second of the new Astute class, provided the Royal Navy, who will receive five more. His name, "Ambush" (Ambush) is all: with a nuclear reactor that could power an entire city, it can stay underwater for months, and with his radar and sonar to identify targets more than 5 km away and hit them with cruise missiles headed conventional or nuclear.
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| HMS Astute Photo: Reuters |
For alarm systems as it can find the money, keeping the British military expenditure in the 4th largest in the world. It's the same in other NATO countries (including Italy), the total military spending rose to about 1,000 billion dollars annually, equivalent to two thirds of global military spending.
The locomotives of the new arms race are the United States. On 1 December, the U.S. Navy has tested a railgun (barrel electromagnetic induction) which destroyed a target located 200 kms, the kinetic impact of a solid metal projectile launched at speeds of Mach 3 (6,000 km / hour).
The U.S. Army announced by cons have successfully experimented with "the most powerful military laser in the world", produced by Northrop Grumman. It will be used on the battlefield, on board of special vehicles, to blind the sensors of the sights no less than the enemy: and that although the 1995 Convention prohibiting the use of blinding laser weapons.
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| XM-25 Photo source: http://www.businessinsider.com/incredible-weapons-being-developed-2010-11?slop=1 |
Meanwhile laser technology has enabled a new grenade launcher that "changes the rules of the game" in Afghanistan. It is a portable weapon, called XM25, which "kills enemies even when they are behind a wall": the laser sight calculates the exact distance of the lens, so that the projectile fragmentation with microchip explode on the head of those behind the wall (we'll see later if they are combatants or civilians). The first grenade launchers "intelligent" have just been awarded to regiments in Afghanistan, which shortly will receive 12,500 (priced at $ 30,000 each).
The U.S. Air Force also is trying to accumulate the records. December 3, she announced the return of the space, after a 220-day mission, the Shuttle mini X-37B, produced by Boeing. This is the first orbiter which, without crew, is able to operate in space and return to earth automatically. Its military applications are numerous: it can destroy enemy satellites before the attack and bring in future space weapons laser or kinetic impact, and nuclear warheads.
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| X-37B |
is accelerated arms race and high-teh, with the decisive contribution of scientists and in the silence of almost all scientific world.
Edition Sunday, December 19, 2010 il manifesto
Translated from Italian by Marie-Ange Patrizio
Manlio Dinucci is a geographer.
Manlio Dinucci is a geographer.
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