Defense Tech: Rapid Fire 10/25/06 (Updated Again)


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Rapid Fire 10/25/06 (Updated Again)

* Tenet becomes Q-branch chief; conspiracy theorists' heads explode (background here)

* $7 billion more for Army

* More troops to Baghdad?

* Iraqi army, still lame

* New cameras for spy sats?

* Return of the exoskeleton

* Joint Common Missile: unkillable

* FCS' new playground

* Secrecy vs. net-centric ops

* JSF's modelling career

* CIA can't retrain spies

* Face recognition: fake?

* Stanford's big-ass laser

* Robotic paint ball gun

* Waaaaahhhh!!

* Look out below!

* Chavez helping border-crossers?

* Iraq contractors sit on asses, collect checks

* Super-radar still stuck (background here)

(Big ups: EG, JQP, AT, JH, RC, Haninah, Kris, Xeni)

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The Times publishes something factually incorrect. The Pentagon then asks for a correction. The Times declines to print a correction. The Pentagon then prints its own correction. Noah describes this as "whaaaaa."

Brilliant journalism.

Posted by: rutty at October 25, 2006 09:07 PM

Shouldn't the link read "CIA can't _Retain_ spies"? See the article.

Posted by: G at October 25, 2006 02:53 PM

35 years ago the Army initiated the "Low Maintenance Rifle" project by TRW.

It was auto-fire only, and I don't know if it ever really worked well, but you can see here

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as78-e.htm

for more details.

Posted by: Jos Bleau at October 25, 2006 11:53 AM

Rapid Fire 10/25/06 (Updated Again)

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