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October 05, 2019 by Alex Dunbar

Skillset Live Episode #114: CQB K-9 Alex Dunbar – Building the Ultimate Protection Dogs

October 05, 2019 by Alex Dunbar

The charming lady in the picture below is Beátka CQB K-9 – though you would not know it from her demure expression, she has titanium teeth. The vest she is wearing is a new K9 body armor from CQB K9. According to CQB K9’s Alex Dunbar (pictured below rappelling with K9 ‘Bear’), the vest is manufactured of Spectra-Gold. It’s Level III-A, and this one was made in desert digi (Cordura) for high altitude desert operations. This is a proprietary CQB K9 design used by police K9s and MWD (Military Working Dogs) around the world.

October 05, 2019 by Alex Dunbar

CQB K-9 has developed a dog helmet camera (Level III-A with GPS, patent pending). It’s a modular design, compatible with eye protection Rex Specs and hearing protection Mutt Muffs.

October 05, 2019 by Erik Kain

Gizmodo has a write-up on the “badass” Navy SEAL dogs used in the operation to kill Osama bin Laden:

Navy SEAL dogs are badasses, yes. But did you know some of them have titanium fangs, designed to rip through enemy protective armor?

That titanium grill runs $2,000 per tooth. The end result, US military dog trainer Alex Dunbar tells The Daily, is that being bitten is "like being stabbed four times at once with a bone crusher." Hard. Core.

As Radley Balko has pointed out before, some SWAT teams across America are already more militarized than the military. So my concern when I see this “badass” technology on these dogs is that it’s probably fairly easy to start equipping police dogs this way.

October 05, 2019 by Alex Dunbar

They’re called war dogs, and they’re playing a crucial role in the U.S. military.

When the Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, they had a specially trained canine with them. Nearly 3,000 active duty dogs are serving in the armed forces now.