NEW MILITARY TECHNOLOGY :

NewsHour, 01 Jul 08, with Paul Solman et al
After Delays and Criticism, Pentagon Shifts Priorities to Protect Soldiers
'Beginning in 2007 the Pentagon shifted its spending priorities to meet the deadly threat of roadside bombs leading to the procurement of the MRAP, or 'Mine Resistant Ambush Protected'. The fourteen-ton vehicle is credited for a drastic decline in roadside bomb fatalities, but why did it take so long?'

Green Bay Press-Gazette, 03 Jul 08, by Rachel Rivard
USS Green Bay clears test run
'The USS Green Bay will carry a crew of 363 and also will be able to carry almost 700 Marines.'

Popular Mechanics, 11 Jun 08, by Joe Pappalardo
World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing
'The skies over Fort Worth, Texas, hosted a historic aviation milestone today when the most expensive plane on Earth – a modded version of the F-35 Lightning II that lands vertically like a helicopter – made its first flight. Its pilot certainly had the chops to do the job: He learned to fly short take-off/vertical landing (STOVL) airplanes when Jimmy Carter was president.'

International Herald Tribune, 11 Nov 07, by Philip Taubman
The demise of a pricey U.S. spy satellite program
'... an investigation by The New York Times found that the collapse of the project, at a loss of at least $4 billion, was all but inevitable - the result of a troubled partnership between a government seeking to maintain the supremacy of its intelligence technology, but on a constrained budget, and a contractor all too willing to make promises it ultimately could not keep.'

International Herald Tribune, 03 Oct 07, by Thom Shanker
New U.S. missile system successful, military says
'After a successful test last week, the tracking radars and interceptor rockets of a new U.S. missile defense system can be turned on at any time to respond to an emerging crisis in Asia, senior military officers said.'

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