BAE and General Dynamics are vying to build 504 Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles to support light infantry units, especially in places the massive M1 Abrams cannot go.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
The Light Reconnaissance Vehicle, an off-road truck to scout ahead of airborne and light infantry units, could lead the Army’s move to electric motors. But electrifying heavy cargo trucks, let alone tanks, could take decades.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
COVID-19 and quality control problems at BAE’s York, Penn. plant had slowed the replacement of the Vietnam-vintage M113 armored vehicle.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army estimated the OMFV troop carrier would cost $46 billion and the MPF light tank would cost $16 billion. The GAO has doubts.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“These GPS receivers provide secure and resilient position data that can help our PGMs be more precise,” explains BAE spokesperson Mark Daly.
By Theresa Hitchens
While some prototype deliveries and field tests are being delayed, Army leaders said, there’s enough slack in the schedule that combat units will still get the new tech on time.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The 2021 budget request also makes major reductions in the tracked M2 Bradley and the wheeled Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, as well as counter-IED programs.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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The Army’s slashed its 2021 buys of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) and upgraded Paladin PIM howitzer to give the factory time to make fixes, particularly to quality control.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Four days after the service cancelled its initial solicitation, the Chief of Staff promised a new troop carrier would come. But can industry afford to keep trying?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Robotic Test Demonstrator is serving as a “rolling laboratory” to test pretty much every subsystem, especially sensors, that an unmanned vehicle would need, says James Miller, BAE Systems senior business development director for combat vehicles.
By Theresa Hitchens
The software defined radios will make F/A-18E/F and F-22 aircraft communications nodes in a coalition network.
By Barry Rosenberg
“This is not based on ownership. We leave them their freedom.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. If RAVEN succeeds in the next, more challenging round of tests, the BAE jammer will ultimately go on the 1980s-vintage M2 Bradley. That’s a big part of the Army’s urgent push to protect American armored vehicles against Russian-made anti-tank missiles in widespread use around the world.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
