<?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; Fast Movers</title> <atom:link href="http://defensetech.org/category/fast-movers/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>USAF’s Big Penetrator Needs to Be Harder</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/30/usafs-big-penetrator-needs-to-be-harder/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/30/usafs-big-penetrator-needs-to-be-harder/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:46:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ammo and Munitions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16270</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yup, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) needs to be harder, according to anonymous Pentagon sources cited in a Wall Street Journal article. A series of recent tests found that the Air Force’s 30,000-pound tool for penetrating 32 stories of reinforced concrete might not have enough penetrating power to take out Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/30/usafs-big-penetrator-needs-to-be-harder/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>148</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pics of the Day: X-47B From Above</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/pics-of-the-day-x-47b-from-above/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/pics-of-the-day-x-47b-from-above/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:48:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16152</guid> <description><![CDATA[Speaking of Northrop Grumman-made UAVs, check out these new photos of Northrop’s stealthy X-47B. The downward-looking pics show the plane — designed to test out how to operate a fighter-sized, stealthy UAV from an aircraft carrier — flying from an angle I’d never seen before. They make it look all the more badass, even if [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/25/pics-of-the-day-x-47b-from-above/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>66</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Russia Selling Syria 36 Attack Jets</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/russia-selling-syria-36-attack-jets/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/russia-selling-syria-36-attack-jets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crazy Ivan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16110</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Syria’s damn near civil war continues, Russia is selling the Bashar al Assad’s regime 36 Yakovlev Yak-130 attack jets under a freshly inked $550 million contract. As Business Insider says, ‘nobody tells Russia who they can’t sell arms to.’  Not even when it’s a pariah regime that’s killed more than 5,000 of its own people in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/23/russia-selling-syria-36-attack-jets/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>62</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>USMC’s First F-35s Arrive at Eglin</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/11/usmcs-first-f-35b-jsfs-arrive-at-eglin/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/11/usmcs-first-f-35b-jsfs-arrive-at-eglin/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:37:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[F-35 Watch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JSF Watch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marine Corps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16002</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Joint Strike Fighter schoolhouse at Eglin Air Force Base, Fl., recieved its first two F-35B short take-off and vertical landing variants of the JSF today. The two jets — the Marines’ first two production model F-35s — are the seventh and eighth JSFs to be sent to Eglin since last summer. No word on [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/11/usmcs-first-f-35b-jsfs-arrive-at-eglin/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>154</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lockheed’s 6th Gen Fighter</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/05/lockheeds-6th-gen-fighter/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/05/lockheeds-6th-gen-fighter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:14:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15909</guid> <description><![CDATA[Flight Global’s Steve Trimble pulled a coup the other day when he pulled Lockheed Martin’s 2012 holiday calendar out of his trashcan and discovered this  beauty gracing the month of February. Yup, she’s apparenlty Lockheed’s concept for a post 2030 F-22 replacement that would “provide the next quantum leap in capabilities for the next generation [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/05/lockheeds-6th-gen-fighter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>121</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>UK Concerned About F-35 Slowdown</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/05/uk-concerned-about-f-35-slowdown/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/05/uk-concerned-about-f-35-slowdown/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:55:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Downsizing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[F-35 Watch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15903</guid> <description><![CDATA[The UK’s new defense (or should I say defence) secretary, Philip Hammond, today acknowledged that he is worried that further cuts or slowdowns to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will hurt Britain’s ability to rebuild its aircraft carrier fighter force later this decade. Remember, the UK decided to buy nearly 100 F-35C carrier variant [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/05/uk-concerned-about-f-35-slowdown/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>60</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Super Hornet as a Stealth Killer?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/30/the-super-hornet-as-a-stealth-killer/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/30/the-super-hornet-as-a-stealth-killer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:12:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air-to-Air Combat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15846</guid> <description><![CDATA[That new crop of foreign stealth fighters that’s emerging; don’t worry, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can handle ‘em. That’s the interesting pitch that Boeing’s man in Tokyo for fighters gave me earlier this month while discussing Japan’s F-X fighter contest. I suspect that’s Boeing’s main pitch for many of it’s potential fighter customers Basically, the Super Hornet’s active electronically [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/30/the-super-hornet-as-a-stealth-killer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>119</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AF: Alaska F-22 Crash Due to Pilot Error</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/15/af-alaska-f-22-crash-due-to-pilot-error/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/15/af-alaska-f-22-crash-due-to-pilot-error/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Raptor Watch]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15709</guid> <description><![CDATA[In case you haven’t read it yet, it looks like the Air Force is blaming last December F-22 Raptor crash in Alaska on pilot error — with an oxygen generating system-related twist. The service’s final accident report states that Capt. Jeffery Haney accidentally pointed his Raptor toward the ground while reaching for a switch to activate his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/15/af-alaska-f-22-crash-due-to-pilot-error/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>95</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lockheed Gets $4 Billion for 30 F-35s</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/09/lockheed-gets-4-billion-for-30-f-35s/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/09/lockheed-gets-4-billion-for-30-f-35s/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:03:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[F-35 Watch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JSF Watch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marine Corps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15683</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon just gave Lockheed Martin a $4 billion contract for 30 early production model F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. The batch of planes, officially known as Low Rate Initial Production lot-5 (LRIP-5), was priginally supposed to include 35 jets. However, the Pentagon cut the deal to 30 aircraft due to cost increases and delays in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/09/lockheed-gets-4-billion-for-30-f-35s/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>117</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Photos: ATD-X Japan’s Stealth Jet</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/30/photos-atd-x-japans-stealth-jet/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/30/photos-atd-x-japans-stealth-jet/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:36:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air-to-Air Combat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Balance of Power]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eye on China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15536</guid> <description><![CDATA[Here are some great new images of Japan’s entry in the Great Asian Stealth Fighter Race; the ATD-X air superiority fighter. These shots show a mock-up of Mitsubishi’s design for the jet which it hopes to have flying by 2014–15. Japan wants to field its own stealth fighter in light of China’s rapid military modernization which seems to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/30/photos-atd-x-japans-stealth-jet/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>49</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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