Beyond Chinook: Army Secretary Challenges Industry To Revolutionize Heavy Lift
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A light scout and a mid-size transport remain Army aviation’s top two priorities, Secretary Mark Esper said, but industry needs to start thinking about the next heavy-lift aircraft and stop fighting against cuts to the venerable CH-47.
Army Tells Shoddy Suppliers: Shape Up
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Quality control problems at Boeing are just part of wider supply shortfalls that could hamstring Army helicopters in a major war.
Esper: Chinook & JLTV ‘Designed For a Different Conflict’
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The Army’s rebuilding to face China and Russia. That may leave programs designed over the past decade for COIN operations in the dust.
The Army’s Plan To Save The Wounded In Future War
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Even with faster medevac aircraft, uparmored ambulances, and more medical personnel at the front, will casualties get to life-saving care within the “golden hour”?
The Army’s Plan To Save The Wounded In Future War
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Even with faster medevac aircraft, uparmored ambulances, and more medical personnel at the front, will casualties get to life-saving care within the “golden hour”?
How Army’s Multi-Domain Overhaul May Impact The National Guard
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HUNTSVILLE: Modernizing the Army is about much more than equipment. To defeat Russia and China in future multi-domain warfare — or better yet, deter them — the service is contemplating cultural revolutions as ripe for controversy as any multi-billion dollar weapons program. They include allowing junior officers more initiative, ending chronic micromanagement; creating long-term “regimental” affiliations… Keep reading →
Army’s Multi-Domain Unit ‘A Game-Changer’ In Future War
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But modernizing the Army will take decades and tough decisions about everything from online propaganda to the National Guard.
Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances
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To take out Russian and Chinese targets from a thousand miles away, the US Army wants two very different weapons: a hypersonic missile and a giant cannon.
2020 BUDGET: Airpower Wins Big; ‘Multi-Domain’ Emerges
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For all the talk of major changes, the Pentagon is pouring money into some pretty traditional priorities.
All Services Sign On To Data Sharing – But Not To Multi-Domain
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“We need to have any sensor connect to any shooter at very rapid machine-to-machine speed,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said, “if we’re going to multi-domain operations.” But aye, there’s the rub: Are we?