Pentagon
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Pentagon releases selfie taken by US pilot of Chinese spy balloon
Wshington: The US Department of Defense (DOD) has released a selfie image taken by an American pilot which shows the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down earlier this month. The…
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Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle
San Francisco: Ending the bitter Cloud war, the Pentagon has awarded its multi-billion dollar Cloud-computing contract to all the major players — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle – that can reach up…
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Beijing’s stockpile of nuclear warheads has nearly doubled since 2020: Pentagon
Washington: Beijing accelerated its nuclear weapons program last year and has nearly doubled its supply of warheads since 2020 to past 400, a size that US military planners did not expect to…
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SpaceX withdraws request for Pentagon to fund Starlink in Ukraine: Musk
San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has withdrawn its funding request to the Pentagon to begin footing the cost for satellite internet services Starlink for Ukraine. Musk’s tweet followed…
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Joe Biden authorises largest weapons assistance to Ukraine
Washington: The administration of US President Joe Biden has announced that the US will provide Ukraine with $1 billion worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since the beginning…
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Hot air is US military’s newest weapon against China and Russia
Washington: The Pentagon is working on a new plan to rise above competition from China and Russia: balloons, a report said. The high-altitude inflatables, flying at between 60,000 and 90,000 feet, would…
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Biden nominates security expert Radha Iyengar to top Pentagon position
Washington: US President Joe Biden has nominated security expert Radha Iyengar Plumb to the post of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, the latest Indian-American to be named for…
