‘Land Forces Are Hard To Kill’: Army Chief Unveils Pacific Strategy

‘Land Forces Are Hard To Kill’: Army Chief Unveils Pacific Strategy
‘Land Forces Are Hard To Kill’: Army Chief Unveils Pacific Strategy

A new strategy paper from Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville says forward-deployed Army forces will survive inside Chinese missile strikes and fatally disrupt the PLA’s plans.

Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023

Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023
Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023

“In my career, certainly this is the most amount of modernization I’ve seen,” Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson says. Can multiple Army programs make their 2023 deadline?

Joint World Warms Up To Army Long-Range Missiles

Joint World Warms Up To Army Long-Range Missiles
Joint World Warms Up To Army Long-Range Missiles

The head of INDOPACOM, Adm. Davidson, and the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Air Force Gen. Hyten, seem receptive to a new Army role in long-range strike.

Pacific Commander Warns China Likely To Move On Taiwan; Guam A Target

Pacific Commander Warns China Likely To Move On Taiwan; Guam A Target
Pacific Commander Warns China Likely To Move On Taiwan; Guam A Target

Taiwan may be targeted for annexation by 2027, Adm. Phil Davidson said, and Guam will have to be vigorously defended in a Pacific War.

Lockheed Buying Aerojet Is Bad For Defense

Lockheed Buying Aerojet Is Bad For Defense
Lockheed Buying Aerojet Is Bad For Defense

If aerospace titan Lockheed Martin gets to merge with the nation’s last provider of solid rocket motors, Aerojet Rocketdyne, it will do irreparable harm, argues retired Rear Adm. Don Loren in this op-ed.

Hypersonics: ARRW’s Booster Tests This Week – Carefully

Hypersonics: ARRW’s Booster Tests This Week – Carefully
Hypersonics: ARRW’s Booster Tests This Week – Carefully

As the services rush to field hypersonics, OSD’s top expert warns, they must not repeat sloppy mistakes that have marred past tests – and hypersonic cruise missiles may have more tactical value than easier-to-build boost-glide weapons.

UAE’s Tawazun, MBDA To Develop SmartGlider Missiles

UAE’s Tawazun, MBDA To Develop SmartGlider Missiles
UAE’s Tawazun, MBDA To Develop SmartGlider Missiles

“Selling is no longer the expectation of our customer, but instead working together locally to share technology and engage in a journey where we will sale to the export market,” Patrice Hajjar, MBDA’s Export Vice President for Mideast tells Breaking Defense.

Pentagon Hypersonics Director Rebuts Critics, Step By Step

Pentagon Hypersonics Director Rebuts Critics, Step By Step
Pentagon Hypersonics Director Rebuts Critics, Step By Step

Defense experts and the Pentagon’s hypersonics R&D director told us the Union of Concerned Scientists study, which argues hypersonic weapons offer marginal improvements over existing weapons at an outsized cost, got something wrong at every step.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon’s Hypersonics Director Rebuts The Critics

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon’s Hypersonics Director Rebuts The Critics
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon’s Hypersonics Director Rebuts The Critics

Independent experts and the Pentagon’s hypersonics R&D director tell us a study of hypersonics by the Union of Concerned Scientists overlooks the very real advantages the new weapons offer the US – and its adversaries.

Facing Cuts, Army Chief Touts Pacific Role

Facing Cuts, Army Chief Touts Pacific Role
Facing Cuts, Army Chief Touts Pacific Role

Upcoming Pacific Defender wargames will held showcase Army’s investments in long-range missiles, missile defense, logistics, and information warfare, said Gen. James McConville, the Army Chief of Staff.

Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles

Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles
Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles

Lockheed Martin won a $339 million contract today to integrate two Raytheon-made missiles, now used by the Navy, into a truck-mounted artillery battery by 2023.

DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile

DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile
DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile

With ground tests this year and a full-up flight test in 2023, OpFires hopes to become the Army’s long-term solution for its Mid-Range Capability missile.

Signaling China, White House Floats Putting Hypersonic Missiles On Destroyers

Signaling China, White House Floats Putting Hypersonic Missiles On Destroyers
Signaling China, White House Floats Putting Hypersonic Missiles On Destroyers

“This is a terrible idea for several reasons,” Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute said. The oldest ships would need to undergo a service life extension, while the newer ships would have to undergo expensive upgrades for a complex new mission.

LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21

LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21
LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21

Weapons from hypersonics to howitzers have key deadlines to meet next year to keep to the Army’s ambitious timeline, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood and Brig. Gen. John Rafferty tell Breaking Defense.