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	<title>Defense Tech &#187; Afghan Update</title>
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	<description>The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security</description>
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		<title>The Taliban’s First Drone? Not Quite</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/21/the-talibans-first-drone-not-quite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, some pictures of a micro-UAV that was found during a raid on insurgent supply cache in Helmand Province, Afghanistan recently emerged on the Internet prompting some to wonder if this example of one of the Taliban or al Qaeda’s first ever homemade drones. I can almost guarantee it’s not. What I can (almost) guarantee [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>USAF Re-Opens Light Attack Contest.</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/07/usaf-re-opens-light-attack-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/07/usaf-re-opens-light-attack-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the Air Force’s effort to buy a fleet of 20 or so light attack turboprops has kicked off once again. Yup, several months after a ‘paperwork error’ caused the service to tear up the $355 million contract that it gave Embraer and Sierra Nevada for 20 Brazilian-made Super Tucanos in February, the effort is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>125</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don’t Forget</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/04/10/dont-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/04/10/dont-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, this isn’t tech related but it’s damned interesting and important. Our sister site Line of Departure just posted this guest piece by Michael Yon detailing his efforts to determine the status of the only American POW in Taliban custody, Sgt. Bowie Bergdahl. We’re publishing this here because its important not to forget about Bergdahl, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conventional Vs SOF Helos?</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/04/04/conventional-vs-sof-helos/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/04/04/conventional-vs-sof-helos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Door Kickers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s question we’ve heard several times in the months since last summer’s downing of a CH-47 Chinook in Afghanistan that killed 30 U.S. troops, including 17 Navy SEALs, and eight Afghan Commandos; would those men still be alive if they were traveling aboard an aircraft belonging to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Insane Video: AH-64 Apache Crash</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/21/insane-video-ah-64-apache-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/21/insane-video-ah-64-apache-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh.My.God. Watch this insane video of an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter perform an extremely low pass over a snow-covered U.S. outpost (some say it’s FOB Sharana in Paktika Province) in the mountains of Afghanistan before slamming onto the ground narrowly missing some troops, bouncing back into the air and spinning out of control for what looks like [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>88</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shocker: Afghan Air Force Investigated for Drug Running</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/09/shocker-afghan-air-force-investigated-for-drug-running/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/09/shocker-afghan-air-force-investigated-for-drug-running/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs and Thugs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one tipster jokingly said, here’s what the Afghan air force was going to do with those Super Tucanos that the U.S. Air Force was going to give to the Afghans. From the Wall Sreet. Journal: KABUL—The U.S. is investigating allegations that some officials in the Afghan Air Force, which was established largely with American [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>91</slash:comments>
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		<title>Single Part Breaking Lost a $72 Million Drone</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/07/single-part-breaking-led-to-loss-of-72-million-global-hawk-drone/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/07/single-part-breaking-led-to-loss-of-72-million-global-hawk-drone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 11, 2011 Air Force ground controllers lost contact with one of the military’s most advanced — and expensive — drones, an EQ-4B Global Hawk as the jet flew high over Eastern Afghanistan. Nine hours into an otherwise smooth communications relay mission using the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), the plane was cruising at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pic of the Day: Snow Hawk</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/07/pic-of-the-day-snow-hawk/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/03/07/pic-of-the-day-snow-hawk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The great photo showing a UH-60 Black Hawk of Task Force Poseidon flying over the snow covered mountains just south of Bagram airfield in Afghanistan was just sent to us by the task force’s PAOs. TF Poseidon includes choppers of the Army’s 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade deployed to Regional Command East (RC East) in Afghanistan.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Last Summer’s Mysterious Global Hawk Crash</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/20/last-summers-mysterious-global-hawk-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/20/last-summers-mysterious-global-hawk-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone know anything about the mysterious RQ-4 Global Hawk crash that occurred downrange — possibly just inside Pakistan close to the Afghan city of Jalalabad — last August? The Air Force’s crash report database doesn’t allow you to open up the accident investigation board’s report on the incident which received surprisingly little media coverage. I say this because the Global [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Our New Megabase in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/03/our-new-megabase-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/03/our-new-megabase-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this is some drone-related news about the Afghan war that we missed. While most media attention has been focused on CIA drone bases in Pakistan, the U.S. last year transformed the remote ex-Soviet air field at Shindand, near the Iranian border, into the second biggest air base in all Afghanistan. The perimeter of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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