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  1. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Lebanon’s visiting Defense Minister on Sunday, telling him that Beirut and Tehran should work toward unity to confront the west and Israel, IRNA reported.
  2. Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf (Germany) is reorganizing its Defence arm in response to planned expansion and the corporation’s increasingly international character.
  3. The first flight test of UAV Rustom-2, set to be used solely for defense purposes, would take place in February 2014, a top official at India’s Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) said.
  4. U.S. intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence indicating Iran’s decision to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported.
  5. The U.S. Navy has exercised contract options funding the construction of the 8th and 9th Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), as part of a ten-ship program potentially worth over US$1.6 billion.
  6. The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC), demonstrated its tactical airborne networking potential during the U.S. Army's Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 12.1 at White Sands Missile...
  7. The Pentagon has notified U.S. lawmakers of plans to bolster U.S. defenses in and around the Strait of Hormuz to be prepared for a military response against Iran, a report said Friday.
  8. Israel believes that within 2-3 years Iran will have intercontinental missiles able to hit the United States, an Israeli Minister said in remarks aimed at raising awareness of the threat it believes a nuclear Iran would pose to the world.
  9. Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has unveiled the Harris Falcon networking system, the first end-to-end system for connecting warfighters in the field to the tactical cloud.
  10. Western and other countries are turning a blind eye to weapons purchases by Syrian exiles who are already smuggling light arms, communications equipment and night vision goggles to rebels inside Syria
 



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