This is starting to get old; it's now DID's turn.

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Went to look in on the Defense Industry Daily (DID) site today as they normally take a two week holiday this time of year. This site was indispensable to me and to anyone else that might've used this site for equipment submissions, modification and OOB inclusion as countries bought/sold equipment. It's not hopeless but, it doesn't look good either. I believe a lot of equipment got into or modified because of this site; it was always a single source mufti-referenced (Within the articles.) source. I've emailed to determine the future ability to access at least the archived articles, when I know something, you'll know ASAP upon me receiving any feedback.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/

Scroll down for article.

Regards,
Pat

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It seems there are internal issues going on at "DID" so by way of a quick update...
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/reader-subscriptions-that-did-email-blast-was-a-crack-029205/

Regards,
Pat

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By way of an update:

Patrick J. Conklin
Subject: What will the status be for future online access and to archival articles under the current status?
JAN 13, 2015 | 07:42AM EST
Kay Harrison replied:
Good Morning, Pat -

I'm not sure that anyone responded to your email last week; we appreciate very much your good wishes. As you can see, we are trying to keep things running and have plans to continue to do so. Thanks for your support!

Best Regards,
Kay Harrison
Defense Industry Daily
Phone: 703/531-8237
kay@defenseindustrydaily.com

I would hope and ask that you visit this great resource once in awhile there are as many of you know many e-business sites that track website usage numbers for potential advertisers etc. like in the game "Hits Matter". This is too good a reference to lose when it comes to equipment and sales of equipment as the data can be used for the game. Not quite JANE'S but not far behind for what they do either.

Thank You.

Regards,
Pat

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Side note: Should the site go down in the future, Archive.org's Wayback Machine offers cached versions of most sites on the internet going back many years.