By David Crane
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March 15, 2010
Human Events is reporting that the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) fighter/attack aircraft’s per-unit cost has skyrocketed to $112 million, and The New York Times is reporting that the F-35 JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) fighter/attack aircraft has ballooned in cost from 60-90 percent [...]
by David Crane
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August 13, 2004
DefenseReview did not receive any of the information contained in the first two paragraphs of this story from Le Mas Ltd., or from Stan Bulmer. Le Mas/Stan Bulmer will not discuss military operational use of, or field performance data relating to, the Blended Metal Technology (BMT) [...]
By David Crane
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February 1, 2010
Updated on 2/20/10
On March 29 of last year (2009), DefenseReview published a story stating that we disagreed with the cancellation of the F-22 Raptor program, and calling for at least 1,000 Raptors, total, to be built and fielded. This is because we knew that advanced Russian [...]
By David Crane
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December 15, 2009
Now, this is interesting. “The Korea Times” is reporting that some of the 350 South Korean troops deploying to Afghanistan (to protect 120 South Korean civilian reconstruction workers) will be armed with the Daewoo K11 semi-auto, mag-fed 20mm grenade launcher/select-fire 5.56×45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO) assault rifle [...]
By David Crane
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Every shooter out there is well aware of the dire state of the rifle and pistol ammunition supply and prices over the past year.
By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
September 14, 2009
Updated on 9/15/09
Russian arms manufacturer
By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
September 1, 2009
A company called Lucid Dimensions, Inc.







