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	<title>Defense Tech &#187; Fire for Effect</title>
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	<description>The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security</description>
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		<title>Video: BAE’s New Railgun Firing for First Time</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/28/video-baes-new-railgun-firing-for-first-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the Office of Naval Research has begun test firing BAE’s new 32-megajoule railgun and we’ve got the video to prove it. Remember, the Navy wants a 20 to 32 megajoule railgun that can fire a projectile at speeds of up to 5,600 miles per hour over distances of 50 to 100 nautical miles. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Inside a KC-130J Harvest Hawk Gunship</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/14/video-inside-a-kc-130j-harvest-hawk-gunship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Marine Corps’ KC-130J Harvest Hawk has been around for a little while now. As you know, Harvest Hawks are KC-130J tankers equipped with plug and play air to ground missile and sensor systems allowing them to pinch hit as gunships for Marines on the ground, and they’ve been doing plenty of shooting in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Navy Moving Ahead With Railgun Devo</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/09/navy-moving-ahead-with-railgun-devo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a little story that’s been making the Internet rounds lately; the Navy is about to take one more step toward making high-powered railguns a ship-board reality. Yup, the Office of Naval Research is about to start test firing a BAE Systems-built railgun and another made by General Atomics (watch a badass video of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>99</slash:comments>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crazy Ivan]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another Iranian Nuke Scientist Killed</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/12/another-iranian-nuke-scientist-killed/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/12/another-iranian-nuke-scientist-killed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Here’s your thurdsay Iran update. If you haven’t seen it, someone blew up yet another Iranian nuclear scientist. This is the fourth scientist to die from a car bombing in Iran in the last two years. According to multiple news accounts 32 year old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan and his bodyguard were killed when someone drove [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>80</slash:comments>
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		<title>Air Force Now Has the MOP</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/15/air-force-now-has-the-mop/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/15/air-force-now-has-the-mop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rogue states with nascent nuclear weapon programs (cough, Iran, cough), consider yourselves on notice. The Air Force has started taking delivery of Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Yup, the 30,000-pound bunker busters, known as MOPs, designed to penetrate 30 stories of reinforced concrete. (Oh, and the massive bomb’s name is almost as charged as the term, Pre-Dawn [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>220</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Libya Show the Need for Light Attack Planes?</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/11/did-libya-show-the-need-for-light-attack-planes/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/11/did-libya-show-the-need-for-light-attack-planes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting, the high-cost of using some of the world’s most advanced fighter jets in Libya against Gadhafi’s joke of a military has led some NATO allies to consider buying cheap light attack planes similar to the ones the United States wanted to buy to fight insurgencies. NATO’s chief targeteer for the Libyan campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>152</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Marine Corps</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/10/happy-birthday-marine-corps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 236th birthday, Marines! Above you’ll the see the official Marine Corps birthday video. Click through the jump to watch two more video tributes to the Corps’ that I like better. Be sure to turn the sound up on the first one at the 1:45 mark — just make sure you’re wearing headphones if you’re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Video: The Remains of Gadhafi’s Last Convoy</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/26/video-the-remains-of-gadhafis-last-convoy/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/26/video-the-remains-of-gadhafis-last-convoy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the video below the jump that apparently shows the remains of Gadhafi’s last convoy after it was savaged by NATO airstrikes last week. The convoy was hit by a U.S. drone and a French fighter jet, forcing the Krazy Kolonel to flee on foot and hide in a drainage ditch where he was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>ATK’s AC-208 Combat Caravan Gunship</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/26/atks-ac-208-combat-caravan-gunship/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/26/atks-ac-208-combat-caravan-gunship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it’s not brand new but it’s still cool. This little model on display at ATK’s booth during the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual convention in DC a couple of years ago represents the company’s AC-208 Combat Caravan. Now, air force’s around the world use the already use the Cessna Caravan for light cargo [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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