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US special operators are notoriously low-profile “silent professionals.” But lately the Internet’s been abuzz over Special Operations Command’s effort to build a high-tech suit of bulletp...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/10/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-socom-wants-you-to-help-build-high-tech-iron-man-armor/

UPDATED: Latest Theory Is The Helo Is From Chinese Museum. No Proof. A photo of a helicopter that looks quite a bit like an American Apache AH-64 attack helicopter on a truck has surfaced in Chin...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/10/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-guessing-game-its-an-apache-its-a-chinese-attack-helo-its-a/

Sun Tzu said: Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. WASHI...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/10/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-chinas-fear-of-us-may-tempt-them-to-preempt-sinologists/

U.S. Army Set to Ban Certain Tattoos In a culture where even soccer moms now sport tattoos and soccer-themed “tramp stamps” (click the links for some examples), the Army’s recent decision t...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/10/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-why-the-army-wants-to-ban-tattoos/

It’s difficult enough for one ship to find and sink another ship. It may not be quite as hard for planes flying from an aircraft carrier to find enemy ships and sink them, but it’s not easy. ...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/09/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-b-1b-exterminates-small-moving-boat-tests-larger-anti-ship-missile/

ARLINGTON: A candid Vice-Chairman of the Joint Staff delivered some tough messages to the Army yesterday and got in a few swipes at Congress and “the political leadership” in general. Adm. Ja...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/09/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-vcjcs-winnefeld-tells-army-forget-long-land-wars/

COMDEF: After decades without a significant new rotocraft technology, the head of Pentagon buying says he’s going to try and fund a new initiative to move helicopters and their brethren like th...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/09/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-kendall-flags-dod-budget-battle-to-watch-next-gen-rotocraft/

USS WASP: The Marines and Navy have spent most of the last three weeks putting the new F-35B through its paces here, executing more than 90 short takeoffs and vertical landings, including 19 at n...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/09/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-marines-put-f-35b-stovl-jet-through-paces-at-sea/

WASHINGTON: Imagine: tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological weapons; unseen sensors peppered throughout a submarine to detect radiation leaks or chemical co...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/08/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-nano-breakthrough-for-navy-lab-tiny-sensors-to-detect-explosives-bio-weapons-rotten-food/

AUVSI: Imagine a featherweight aircraft built of composites boasting an enormous 160 foot wing, swathed in solar cells that can take off at 20 mph and remain aloft for five years. Yes, five years...

https://breakingmedia.com/2013/08/breaking-defense-story-of-the-week-worlds-loneliest-airplane-five-years-aloft-at-65k-feet/