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By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Dec.7) -- The 30,000 new troops slated for deployment in Afghanistan are supposed to enable a new approach to pushing back the Taliban and stabilizing the country. But it's not just the doctrine that's new; some new technologies have also either recently debuted in Afghanistan, are scheduled soon to go to war, or are being considered for use with American troops. Here are a few of them: 1) Unmanned helicopters. Under contract to the Pentagon, Boeing has developed an unmanned helicopter called the A160 Hummingbird that the company says can fly faster, quieter and higher than manned ...
Wartime Contractors, Profit and Pork
By David Wood - Politics DailyBAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- President Obama's attack on "indefensible'' waste in the defense industry is no wild-eyed liberal rant – at least judging by the hard-eyed views of war-fighters out here. Folks who work in combat conditions have an understandably focused view of the stuff they're given to operate with. For the most part, the equipment works well, and they are grateful for it. But there's also a strong undercurrent of frustration at how long it takes to get innovative solutions into the field. One example is the big armored trucks called MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush ...
Airlift to Afghanistan: An Invisible Bridge
By David Wood - Politics DailyABOARD FLIGHT REACH 4060 – At a cost of $44,351 an hour, this venerable leviathan of a C-5 cargo plane has struggled off a South Carolina runway bound for Afghanistan, some 17 hours away, carrying a cargo of two. The payload consists of two very heavy armored trucks, known as MRAPs (Mine Resistant, Armor Protected vehicles). They are built specifically to resist the blast of roadside bombs, the main killers of American troops in Afghanistan. The huge trucks, each weighing 60,000 pounds, are lashed with webs of 25,000-pound test chain to the steel-plate deck of the C-5's enormous cargo ...
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