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Rapid Fire 10/25/06 (Updated Again)

* Tenet becomes Q-branch chief; conspiracy theorists’ heads explode (background here)
* $7 billion more for Army
* More troops to Baghdad?
* Iraqi army, still lame
* New cameras for spy sats?
* Return of the exoskeleton
* Joint Common Missile: unkillable
* FCS’ new playground
* Secrecy vs. net-centric ops
* JSF’s modelling career
* CIA can’t retrain spies
* Face recognition: fake?
* Stanford’s big-ass laser
* Robotic paint ball gun
* Waaaaahhhh!!
* Look out below!
* Chavez helping border-crossers?
* Iraq contractors sit on asses, collect checks
* Super-radar still stuck (background here)

(Big ups: EG, JQP, AT, JH, RC, Haninah, Kris, Xeni)

October 25th, 2006 | Rapid Fire | 21903 Comments2006-10-25+16%3A19%3A58jason

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Jos Bleau October 25, 2006 at 11:53 am: 35 years ago the Army initiated the “Low Maintenance Rifle” project by TRW.
It was auto-fire only, and I don’t know if it ever really worked well, but you can see here
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as78-e.htm
for more details.
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G October 25, 2006 at 2:53 pm: Shouldn’t the link read “CIA can’t _Retain_ spies”? See the article.
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rutty October 25, 2006 at 9:07 pm: The Times publishes something factually incorrect. The Pentagon then asks for a correction. The Times declines to print a correction. The Pentagon then prints its own correction. Noah describes this as “whaaaaa.”
Brilliant journalism.
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