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December 2006

* Dems don’t spook defense contractors * Tons of nuke missile tests * Hot Hornet vid * Meet the Swiss Jet Man * “Rosetta phone“ * Scooter of doom * Nanotech armor * Ultrasonic mine fighter * Noonan’s close call * Roggio vs. Muj TV * Defense Dep’t bans HTML e-mail * U.S. blocks Israel […]

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Out of the hundreds and hundreds of technologies, tactics, and political maneuvers Defense Tech highlighted, here are the twenty you guys clicked on the most in 2006. Thanks for another great year, everyone. 1) Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a […]

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CBS News took a peek last night at our favorite giant golf ball, er, missile defense radar. With documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight the CBS News Investigative Unit found a host of issues with the Sea-Based X-Band Radar SBX for short that still remain unresolved, just ahead of its activation in the […]

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I’ve had sources ask to meet me in some pretty odd places. But there was one meeting last year that had to be just about the strangest request yet. It wasn’t just that this very-recently retired Defense Department strategist wanted to meet at the Pentagon City Mall — that’s a pretty common place to grab […]

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Score one for the good guys. In a shockingly sane move, the Bush Administration — widely considered to be the most secretive in recent history — is going to let hundreds of millions of once-classified documents enter into the public sphere. Secret documents 25 years old or older will lose their classified status without so […]

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