“The Army appears to be keeping it accessible should the need arise in the US Indo Pacific region… but there’s a larger question about what really is going to be the future of these Iron Dome batteries,” said Tom Karako, a missile defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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How do you get targeting data from satellite to howitzer in less than 20 seconds, on a tactical network that was never designed to do that? You improvise, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
This fall’s first Project Convergence exercise aims to feed targeting data from satellites to artillery so fast that gunners can unleash precision fire in much less than a minute. And that’s just the start.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Four bases around the country will pioneer military use of the new high-speed communications network technology.
By Paul McLeary
A new Army unit will hack and jam enemy networks and provide targeting data for both long-range missiles and missile defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Colin Clark
PENTAGON: From hunting jungle animals to communicating across the ocean, US Army soldiers learned much in the first Pacific Pathways wargames that Iraq and Afghanistan never taught them. Those exercises are part of the service’s effort to reinvent itself as it shrinks, heading from a wartime peak of 570,000 to 450,000 or below. Instead of prolonged, large-scale…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
