The Scotland Bill, presently before Westminster, transfers new powers to Holyrood such as control over national speed limits and air weapons.
The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.
The bill contains other less controversial clauses on domestic violence, gangs, cowboy wheel clampers, unauthorised possession of mobile phones in prisons, compensating UK victims of overseas terrorism, controls on air weapons and restrictions on all-night drinking.
Both snag radio communication, phone calls and emissions from air defense weapons and pinpoint their origins.
The Air Force Weapons School provides advanced training for a handful of elite officers each year in traditional skills, like teaching aerial combat, reconnaissance and bombing, and also for the growing ranks of drone pilots.
However, a fearsome title alone won't clinch a multi-million dollar sale, so military trade events like air shows give weapons manufacturers a chance to show off their products -- even if the hard sell has been done over months and years of networking and negotiations.
Apparently Moscow has provided Syria with some air and naval defense weapons.
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Taken together, these instruments have come to be called "soft power" (as opposed to the traditional kind of "hard power" represented by armies, navies, air forces and nuclear weapons).
But generally the players came up with more questions than answers, both about how deterrence might work in the 21st century and how to employ the new weapons the Air Force is contemplating.
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The dangers of a wider spill-over of the crisis have also increased with bombings in Turkey, Israeli air strikes on alleged weapons supplies going from the Syrian regime to Hezbollah, and a growing role for Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in the fighting.
The real question is whether the administration is prepared to provide even those "koshered" rebel groups, those without ties to Sunni extremists and an inclusive approach to the new Syria, with the "manpads": portable surface-to-air missiles and anti-armor weapons in sufficient quantities that might be effective against al-Assad's air and armor.
People apparently celebrating, firing their weapons into the air as this news started trickling out.
Others dressed in military greens shooting their automatic weapons in the air.
LifePoint's device measures drugs in saliva by using a chemical the Navy used during the Gulf War to detect biological or chemical weapons in the air.
So the addition of atomic weapons to the air campaign in August of 1945 simply reinforced the already widespread belief that bombers were something new and special.
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The Assad regime spent years buying up sophisticated long range missiles, air defense systems and chemical weapons to counter the threat of an airborne attack from Israel.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
On defense, I reduced spending on nuclear programs, reduced troop levels to pre-Iraq levels, reduced the Navy and Air Force fleets, canceled weapons programs, and reduced the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30, 000 by 2013.
As we approached a steep hill, from which the Afghan policemen were firing rockets and Kalashnikovs into the village, Khalil told everyone in our group to lift our hands and weapons in the air, and he began calling out loudly, identifying us to the policemen above us, telling them to hold their fire.
He also emphasized the need for boost-phase defenses, for which sea-, air- and space-based weapons will be necessary.
The United States will rely more heavily on air power and long-range weapons in its military planning for the peninsula.
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Mr Netanyahu would not confirm what was widely believed to have been an Israeli air strike on a suspected Syrian government weapons convoy in January.
With the help of its Muslim "Janjaweed" militia groups and the blessing of Bashir, the Sudanese Air Force has used Chinese-made weapons against defenseless villagers in Darfur .
Indeed, the President is reportedly considering air strikes against Saddam's covert weapons programs precisely because the latter has, over the past six years, successfully thwarted a far more intrusive and robust on-site inspection regime than any that could be negotiated in an arms control context.
However, he said there was no indication that the rebels were armed with heavy weapons or surface-to-air missiles.
"The federal government has viewed for years that he has this almost mystical ability to fabricate weapons or bombs almost out of thin air, " Kleinman said.
The capability to strike at very long range with very great accuracy using conventional weapons has been a goal of strategic air power since the invention of the airplane.
The party most likely to be harmed from such a move would be Israel, which would lose its ability to bomb Syrian weapons of mass destruction sites from the air.
Three others were charged with conspiring to sell weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to be used to protect the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, cocaine processing operations in Colombia against U.S. military forces.
But even with all the new weapons, can the rebels fend off an air assault?
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