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	<title>Defense Tech &#187; Around the Globe</title>
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		<title>Introducing Iran’s Newest Attack Helos, Wait a Second…</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/25/introducing-irans-newest-attack-helos-wait-a-second/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing it’s tradition of reverse engineering and fabricating its stockpile of 40-year old American weaponry, Iran annoucned that it is about to unviel its first ever domestically produced Cobra attack choppers. Yup, nearly 50-years after the U.S. introduced the Cobra, Iran has figured out how to make its own. Kinda reminds me of Iran’s Saeqeh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One LCS Class for the Gulf, one LCS Class for the Pacific</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/22/one-lcs-class-for-the-gulf-one-lcs-class-for-the-pacific/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As expected, Navy officials are on the PR offensive with the Littoral Combat Ship program, saying the little ships will see combat from day one of any fight (you know, to counter the steady stream of reports that say the LCS can’t survive in combat). In fact, the two classes of LCS, the Lockheed-Martin-built Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fake Parts are Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/22/fake-parts-are-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after months of research, Senate Armed Services Committee investigators have discovered “a flood” counterfet parts in everything from critical navigation software for newly modernized C-5 Galaxy cargo planes to “assemblies” destined for RQ-4 Global Hawk spy planes, submarines and even Stryker Mobile Gun Systems. Now, we’ve known that fake parts — usually made in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>100</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pics of the Day: On a Boat!</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/18/pics-of-the-day-shipping-ships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So remember how Chief of Naval Operations Adm. jonathan Greenert announced in March that he was sending four Avenger-class minesweepers (technically they’re called mine countermeasures ships) to the Persian Gulf, just to “be sure … that we are ready” in case Iran tried anything weird aimed at cutting off a massive quantity of the world’s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>52</slash:comments>
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		<title>China’s Second Stealth Fighter Flies</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/17/chinas-second-stealth-fighter-flies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China’s second J-20 stealth fighter has officially taken to the skies, making China the third nation after the United States and Russia to operate multiple stealth aircraft (to be fair, only the U.S. has an operational fleet of stealth jets, China and Russia have only two prototypes apiece).]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>124</slash:comments>
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		<title>China’s Second Stealth Fighter Getting Ready for Its First Flight</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/16/chinas-second-stealth-fighter-getting-ready-for-its-first-flight/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/16/chinas-second-stealth-fighter-getting-ready-for-its-first-flight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update on China’s stealth fighter program. We’ve all seen the pictures that emerged recently of second J-20 stealth fighter, dubbed 2002, sitting alongside the first J-20, 2001, on the flight line at Chengdu — something that indicates a test flight imminent. Well, here are some pics showing good ole 2002 making a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Israel Have Stealthy Black Hawks?</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/15/does-isreal-have-stealthy-black-hawks/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/15/does-isreal-have-stealthy-black-hawks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is interesting. Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims there might be a lot more of those stealthy Black Hawk helicopters  – the kind famoulsy used in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year — out there than has previously been reported. The best part of his claim; the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>83</slash:comments>
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		<title>Closing the Tech Gap: China’s Spaceplane</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/14/closing-the-tech-gap-chinas-spaceplane/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/14/closing-the-tech-gap-chinas-spaceplane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=17233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That’s right, the rumors appear to be true. Beijing is joining the United States as the only nations with reusable spaceplane designs that are actually conducting test flights. Beijing reportedly sent its Divine Dragon — or Shenlong — space plane aloft for a successful atmospheric test flight in January, 2011. The U.S. uses its two [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>107</slash:comments>
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		<title>Video: China’s Two J-20 Stealth Fighters</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/14/video-chinas-two-j-20-stealth-figthers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Happy Monday. Let’s start this week off with a new video showing China’s two J-20 stealth fighters sitting side by side on the ramp at Chengdu, China. Click through the jump to see the video of good ole J-20–2001 and J-20–2002.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>97</slash:comments>
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		<title>Threats the White House is Watching</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/11/the-threats-the-white-house-is-watching/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/05/11/the-threats-the-white-house-is-watching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DT and some other members of the Military.com team had the opportunity this morning to sit down at the White House with Deputy National Security Advisor, Denis McDonough, and pick his brain for about 45 minutes. While much of the conversation focused on the strategy surrounding the fight against al Qaeda (he’s the guy in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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