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WikiLeaks Deep Dive: Suicide Vests, Nork Ammo and Af/Pak Ceasefires
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Defense Tech has been doing some document exploitation over the last couple of days to help provide some interesting tidbits to our readers from the release of US military reports dumped by WikiLeaks. We know you’re all busy, so our team will keep reading them so you don’t have to. In our first couple of scrapes, we [...]
Independent QDR Panel Recommends Buying More of Everything, Increasing Defense Budget
Friday, July 30th, 2010
As independent panel reports go here in Washington, D.C., this one just released by the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel, co-chaired by former Bush administration National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Clinton-era defense secretary William Perry, is really awful. It recommends buying more of pretty much every weapon system or at least replacing the current [...]
Mattis Still Supports Light COIN Plane Air Force Wants Dead
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this week, newly nominated Central Command head Gen. James Mattis reaffirmed his support for a turboprop aircraft to provide ground pounders with long loitering time, on-call recon and strike. The project called “Imminent Fury” was run out of the Navy’s irregular warfare office. Mattis [...]
US Army Orders Additional Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.: The Boeing Company and partner iRobot Corp. today announced that they have received a new task order to an existing contract to provide Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGV) to the U.S. Army. The order calls for 94 new model 310 SUGV robots, plus spares, for a total value of $14.6 million.
This order, the [...]
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India Develops Weapons for Low Intensity Conflict
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is involved in development of defence technologies and now focusing on customization of certain technologies already developed for military operations to these new emerging security threats and development of new technologies and devices as projected by security forces, both military and para military, during recent interactions with them.
Based on [...]
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Petraeus Issues New COIN Guidance for Afghan Theater
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Newly installed Afghan theater commander Gen. David Petraeus has issued new “Counterinsurgency Guidance” to troops under his command. The 24 points are largely plucked from Field Manual 3–24 Counterinsurgency and David Kilcullen’s 28 COIN principles albeit with an Afghan flavor; for example, it includes the familiar “human terrain” is the “decisive terrain” and “people are [...]
F-35B STOVL Flight Tests Behind Schedule Due to Failing Parts
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
As frenetic stock-picking, carnival barker Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, says: listen to company quarterly earnings reports, you can learn a lot. On Lockheed Martin’s 2nd quarter conference call yesterday, CEO Bob Stevens told Wall Street analysts (transcript here) the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program was at a “critical juncture” as it transitions [...]
A Shortage of Cyber Warriors
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By Kevin Coleman Defense Tech Cyber War Analyst Private contractors have proven vital in the current wars, providing services that range from security and fighting in battles to training and supply chain management. Recently there has been a lot of attention being given to the number of contractors used within both theaters of operations – [...]
Army opens criminal probe into Afghan war files leak
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Washington: The US Army opened a criminal probe Tuesday into the leak of some 90,000 classified military files on the Afghan war, the Pentagon said, naming a jailed soldier as a “person of interest.”
Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old private charged in an earlier leak to WikiLeaks, was under renewed scrutiny in the latest release to the [...]
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IMX-101 Explosive Approved to Replace TNT in US Army Artillery
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
ROCKVILLE, Md.: The U.S. Army has approved a new BAE Systems explosive as the first safer and effective alternative to replace TNT in artillery. The decision is a major step toward the production and use of a new family of high-performance insensitive munitions that are designed not to detonate under conditions other than the intended [...]
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