<?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; The Deadlies</title> <atom:link href="http://defensetech.org/category/the-deadlies/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>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:43:20 +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>Navy Moving Ahead With Railgun Devo</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/09/navy-moving-ahead-with-railgun-devo/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/09/navy-moving-ahead-with-railgun-devo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:10:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fire for Effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16358</guid> <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. 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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>A Basic Mistake That Trashed a JSTARS</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/27/a-basic-mistake-that-trashed-a-jstars/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/27/a-basic-mistake-that-trashed-a-jstars/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:08:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Defense Biz]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16157</guid> <description><![CDATA[Imagine flying, along with 20 or so fellow aircrew, in an Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Targeting and Attack Radar System (JSTARS) jet for a mission to track down insurgents planting roadside bombs in Iraq or Afghanistan. You’ve just taken off from your base in Qatar but before you can go scan the ground for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/27/a-basic-mistake-that-trashed-a-jstars/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>206</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Army Won’t Quit Counter-IED Research</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/18/army-wont-quit-counter-ied-research/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/18/army-wont-quit-counter-ied-research/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:38:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>philewing</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Armor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[army]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IED War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15423</guid> <description><![CDATA[Improvised explosive devices — the hand-cobbled roadside bombs that have taken a terrible toll on troops in Iraq and Afghanistan — are a lot like malaria, the Army’s chief scientist said Friday. You can treat malaria, you can eradicate the conditions in which it occurs, but it’s been around a long time and probably it [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/18/army-wont-quit-counter-ied-research/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>29</slash:comments> </item> <item><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> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Door Kickers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fire for Effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Future Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15379</guid> <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> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/15/air-force-now-has-the-mop/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>219</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Navy Arming Fire Scout Drone Helos</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/08/navy-arming-fire-scout-drone-helos/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/08/navy-arming-fire-scout-drone-helos/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:31:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drone Bombing Campaign]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rotary Wing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15288</guid> <description><![CDATA[What’s the latest U.S. drone to be armed? The Navy’s MQ-8 Fire Scout helicopter. Northrop Grumman has begun helping the Navy arm the little robo-choppers with the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System — basically, laser-guided 70-mm Hydra rockets, according to a company announcement. The newly armed Fire Scouts will give ships — especially smaller ones that can’t [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/08/navy-arming-fire-scout-drone-helos/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>36</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>NATO Airstrike May Have Hit Gadhafi’s Convoy</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/20/nato-airstrike-may-have-hit-gadhafis-convoy/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/20/nato-airstrike-may-have-hit-gadhafis-convoy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:46:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Contingency Ops]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Extra! Extra!]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15074</guid> <description><![CDATA[The latest AP reports out of Libya say that it was a NATO strike may have killed Gadhafi. We’ve got calls in to the Pentagon. More to come. From the AP: Libya’s information minister said Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/20/nato-airstrike-may-have-hit-gadhafis-convoy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>29</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How Many of Gadhafi’s Weapons Remain Hidden?</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/23/how-many-of-gadhafis-weapons-remain-hidden/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/23/how-many-of-gadhafis-weapons-remain-hidden/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:11:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Ammo and Munitions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Contingency Ops]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=14114</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even with rebels essentially in control of the Libyan capitol of Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi’s forces have lobbed three scud missiles at the city of Misurata in a useless, last ditch effort to put down the rebellion. Just like the scud launched by Gadhafi’s forces earlier this month, the three missiles fired on Aug. 22 caused [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/23/how-many-of-gadhafis-weapons-remain-hidden/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>25</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2,000 Tomahawks Fired in Anger</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/04/2000-tomahawks-fired-in-anger/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/04/2000-tomahawks-fired-in-anger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:27:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fire for Effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Missiles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Net-Centric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sea Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ships and Subs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=13878</guid> <description><![CDATA[So on Aug. 5 the Navy is going officially celebrate the 2,000th combat launch of the venerable Tomahawk cruise missile. The actual launch happened aboard the destroyer USS Barry off the coast of Libya on March 19 as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn aimed at taking out Gadhafi. The missile was one of more than [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/04/2000-tomahawks-fired-in-anger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>39</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A V-22 Carried bin Laden to the Vinson</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/02/a-v-22-carried-bin-laden-to-the-vinson/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/02/a-v-22-carried-bin-laden-to-the-vinson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:49:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Assymetric Warriors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloak and Dagger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Commandos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Counterinsurgency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Door Kickers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fire for Effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gadgets and Gear]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grand Ole Osprey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rotary Wing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ships and Subs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Special Ops]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Deadlies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[You can run...]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=13867</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well, it was a V-22 Osprey that had the job of ferrying Osama bin Laden’s body from Afghanistan to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian sea where he was dumped overboard, according to an article in The New Yorker that stitches together a ton of details about the tech used in the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/02/a-v-22-carried-bin-laden-to-the-vinson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>27</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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