Digital Stiletto: Army Pursues Precision Electronic Warfare
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The US Army can’t match Russia’s battalions of powerful radio jammers. Instead, it’s trying to build a nimble high-tech David to defeat the EW Goliath.
Army Seeks Small Satellites To Support Ground Troops
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Such smallsat payloads, hosted on commercial satellites, are an important piece of the Army’s evolving concept of Multi-Domain Operations, which seeks to combine efforts on land, the sea, air, space, and cyberspace to defeat sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China.
F-35 Spots Targets For Army Missile Defenders
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The test was a big achievement for two much-criticized programs: the Joint Strike Fighter and the Army’s IBCS network — and for the services’ struggle to work better together in a future war.
Talisman Sabre: Land-Based Missiles Vs. China
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The Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force tested new tactics for Pacific conflict, hand-in-glove with the Marines, Air Force, and Australians.
Paris Air Show: It’s Hard To Demo What Makes Fighters Like F-35 Deadly
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As a boy growing up in the 1950s, I looked forward every year to the new cars and how different they would be from last year’s models. Obviously, I am not doing that in 2019, because the combination of what the frame of the car can deliver aerodynamically interacts with software and advanced materials to… Keep reading →
Army Wants Hypersonic Missile Unit by 2023: Lt. Gen. Thurgood
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The battery of eight missiles, while primarily meant to test out tactics, will be capable of combat. So will a prototype battery of lasers entering service in 2021.
Army Moves Out On Lasers, Hypersonics: Lt. Gen. Thurgood
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“You want to kill a swarm of things — whatever that thing is — lasers are not really a swarm-killing tool. They can kill things fast, but they can’t kill a swarm of things fast enough.”
Army Can Manage Both Mideast & Great Powers: Sec. Esper
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The Army can cope with regional dangers like Iran even as it refocuses on Russia and China, the secretary said. In fact, he said, the Army’s controversial modernization program will help with both sets of threats.
Marines: FVL Intriguing, BUT CH-53K Is Essential
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The Marines are hellbent on fielding the troubled CH-53K helicopter to supply the far-flung island outposts they plan on using against China.
Navy & Marines Grapple With Moving To Space Force
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The sea services have their own space specialists, but those personnel don’t only work on space — so who stays and who goes?