<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Defense Tech &#187; Bizarro</title> <atom:link href="http://defensetech.org/category/bizarro/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://defensetech.org</link> <description>The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:24:46 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Meet North Korea’s Latest Drone</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/meet-north-koreas-latest-drone/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/meet-north-koreas-latest-drone/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Those Nutty Norks]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16331</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Iran and China and who knows who else scrambles to unlock the secrets of the U.S. Air Force’s stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone, North Korea is moving to reverse engineer some 1970s-vintage target drones. Yup, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency is reporting that the North has bought up old MQM-107D Streaker target drones from Syria [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/06/meet-north-koreas-latest-drone/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>32</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Creepy-Cool Video: Tiny UAVs Flying in Formation</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/creepycool-video-tiny-uavs-flying-in-formation/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/creepycool-video-tiny-uavs-flying-in-formation/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:39:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robots]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rotary Wing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video Lounge]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16307</guid> <description><![CDATA[In case you guys haven’t seen this video, it’s awesome. It shows a swarm of tiny quadrotor UAVs flying in numerous formations, performing figure eights with each other and even flying around obstacles. Talk about sense and avoid! The little drones (monsters?) were developed and programmed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/01/creepycool-video-tiny-uavs-flying-in-formation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>90</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Monday Eye Candy: Tomcats and Sukhois. What!?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/30/monday-eye-candy-tomcats-and-sukhois-what/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/30/monday-eye-candy-tomcats-and-sukhois-what/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:08:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crazy Ivan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Old Skool]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16260</guid> <description><![CDATA[  Here are some images I wasn’t expecting to see this century. It shows the Su-27s of the Russian Knights aerobatic team being escorted by Iranian F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantoms. Talk about bizarre. Two of America’s legendary Cold War fighters being flown by one of its biggest 21st Century adversaries alongside two Soviet-designed jets [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/30/monday-eye-candy-tomcats-and-sukhois-what/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>141</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pic of the Day: Angry Caspian Sea Monster</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/24/pic-of-the-day-angry-caspian-sea-monster/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/24/pic-of-the-day-angry-caspian-sea-monster/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:40:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crazy Ivan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fire for Effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sea Services]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16131</guid> <description><![CDATA[Happy Tuesday, everyone. I’ve been at a briefing on Iran all morning so while I digest that I thought I’d give you this awesome picture of a Soviet Lun-class ekranoplan firing one of its six massive P-270 Mosquito anti-ship missiles while speeding over what’s likely the Caspian Sea sometime in the late 1980s or 1990s. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/24/pic-of-the-day-angry-caspian-sea-monster/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>48</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Stealthy, Worm-Shaped, Spying Airship. What?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/a-stealthy-worm-shaped-spying-airship-what/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/a-stealthy-worm-shaped-spying-airship-what/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:55:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Big Bro's Watching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloak and Dagger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16121</guid> <description><![CDATA[Check out the latest piece of UAV spy tech that the DoD is looking at out at the giant Nevada Test Site. World Surveillance Group’s worm-like Argus One airship began flight demonstrations for the Pentagon at a Department of Energy-owned airstrip inside the mysterious test range. (It was probably at the DoE’s Yucca airstrip, a site that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/a-stealthy-worm-shaped-spying-airship-what/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>81</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Six-Engined VTOL Design</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/10/lockheeds-six-engined-vtol-design/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/10/lockheeds-six-engined-vtol-design/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:33:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grand Ole Osprey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Defense Biz]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15977</guid> <description><![CDATA[I was taking a peek at Lockheed Martin big defense contractors’ recent patent filings the other day when I came accross this whopper. A patent for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft with three wings and six tilting engines, notice I didn’t say tiltrotors. Richard Oliver recently told Aviation Week that a DoD customer was interested [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/10/lockheeds-six-engined-vtol-design/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>64</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>X-37B Might Not be Spying on China’s Space Station</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/09/x-37b-might-not-be-spying-on-chinas-space-station/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/09/x-37b-might-not-be-spying-on-chinas-space-station/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:50:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Special Ops]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15966</guid> <description><![CDATA[So remember the Internet hubbub last week when the BBC reported that the Air Force’s X-37B space plane may well be spying on China’s new space station, Tiangong-1, since their orbits are very close? Well, it turns out that the source behind that story, Spaceflight, the magazine of the respected British Interplanetary Society ignored one key fact; the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/09/x-37b-might-not-be-spying-on-chinas-space-station/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>28</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>X-37B Likely Spying on China’s Space Station</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/x-37b-likely-spying-on-chinas-space-station/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/x-37b-likely-spying-on-chinas-space-station/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:57:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloak and Dagger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eye on China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Space]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15958</guid> <description><![CDATA[We may finally have a clue what the U.S. Air Force’s secret space plane, the X-37B, is up to on its record breaking mission in the heavens. Amatuer satellite trackers have noticed that the robo-shuttle’s orbital path is nearly identical to China’s brand new space station, Tiangong-1, which was launched in September. Remember, the X-37B [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/x-37b-likely-spying-on-chinas-space-station/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>58</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>US Destroyer Rescues Iranians From Pirates</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/us-destroyer-rescues-iranians-from-pirates/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/us-destroyer-rescues-iranians-from-pirates/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:06:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Commandos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15950</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is kind of funny. The same week that Tehran said that bad things would happen if the U.S. aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis returned to the Persian Gulf, American sailors rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who had been held hostage aboard their dhow (ship), the Al Molai, for several weeks by pirates in the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/us-destroyer-rescues-iranians-from-pirates/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>69</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Inside an Abandoned Soviet Rocket Motor Factory</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/inside-an-abandoned-soviet-rocket-motor-factory/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/inside-an-abandoned-soviet-rocket-motor-factory/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:19:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bizarro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crazy Ivan]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15914</guid> <description><![CDATA[Happy Friday! These pictures of a rusting Soviet rocket motor factory taken by the adventurous young lady shown above have set the Internet abuzz. The explorer, named Lana, broke into the Energomash plant oustide Moscow and broke in, traipsing all over the place. As Animal NY points out, Russian officials are not pleased. Lana’s website [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/06/inside-an-abandoned-soviet-rocket-motor-factory/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>35</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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