Army ‘Big Six’ Ramp Up in 2021: Learning From FCS
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All told, the Army’s investing $57 billion in modernization over five years — but it wants to take time to test new technologies before it commits to them.
Hypersonics Won’t Repeat Mistakes Of F-35
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Let a hundred hypersonic flowers bloom, Pentagon officials say, instead of a single cumbersome mega-program.
Pentagon’s New Ballistic Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, Suffers Years-Long Delay
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What happens when the Pentagon’s new ballistic missile defeat program doesn’t work? They keep using the old one, which has a spotty track record.
Army Reboots Cruise Missile Defense: IFPC & Iron Dome
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The new approach will focus on an urgent but largely unmet threat: Russian and Chinese cruise missiles.
US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix
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Warships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year — 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget — fix the problem?
Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
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The Saudi-Israeli Coalition?
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An Israeli source who spoke with Breaking Defense of condition of anonymity said that attitudes in Saudi Arabia are changing, “not only in domestic issues, but also their understanding that Israel is not an enemy…”
2020 Budget: Army Shifts $31B To Modernization, Readiness
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That’s $6 billion more than previously announced — but it all comes at the cost of almost 200 cut, cancelled, or slowed-down programs, each with backers in Congress.
DoD Wants Help To Spot — & Kill — Mobile Missiles
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The Pentagon has quietly asked defense contractors for ways to spot enemy missile launchers — so the US can destroy them before they even fire.
Pentagon Studies Post-INF Weapons, Shooting Down Hypersonics
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The Pentagon has almost completed a study of how to shoot down hypersonic missiles. It’s also developing new offensive weapons — conventional, not nuclear — whose deployment will become legal with the end of the INF Treaty.