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Rapid Fire 2011-01-28: Portable Gas Turbines

Rapid Fire 2011-01-28: Portable Gas Turbines

by | Jan 27, 2011 | Airbus, Asia - Central, BAE, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Design Innovations, Domestic Security, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Fuel & Power, Heavy Bombers, Intelligence & PsyOps, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, R&D - Private, Submarines, Support Functions - Other, University-related, USA, Warfare - Lessons

* Defense budget cuts split HASC Republicans between hawks and Tea Partiers. * With a bevy of batteries weighing soldiers down, MIT’s research into mini gas turbines in a silicon chip promises a possible way out. * US Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, which...