for the U.S. Navy, removed or recycled some 5.9 million pounds of munitions, firing range and target debris from Marine Corps Air Station at Yuma, Ariz. Sterling Global re...

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. – Raytheon successfully intercepted and destroyed a low quadrant elevation 107mm rocket as part of the second series of guided test vehicle flight tests of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative program. The intercept is a major test milestone before the U.S. Army live-fire engagements begin in September. “Beginning only 18 months...

Raytheon and the U.S. Army successfully completed the first guided test vehicle flight series of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative program at Yuma Proving Ground, Aris. The series consisted of two flight tests against different target profiles. In each case after launch, the interceptor initially guidedMore than 2 million people along Georgia, South Carolina and Florida coasts are advised to flee as hurricane strengthens

Hurricane Matthew was pounding portions of the Bahamas early on Thursday and is expected to intensify on approach to Florida as much of the damage it wrought to Haiti remains unclear.

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The US hurricane centre said Matthew was a category 3 hurricane, 295 miles south-west of West Palm Beach, Florida, with winds of 115mph but is expected to strengthen to category 4, either hitting Florida later on Thursday or moving out to sea.

If Matthew does come ashore, it would be the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005. More than