Marines Explore Robots & 5G Networks For Future Wars
Could mini-drones and robot trucks, coordinating via 5G, replace vulnerable manned convoys?
Marine Commandant: Less A Second Land Army, More Light Amphib Ships
"You'll see some significant changes” in the Navy report “regarding the portion of the fleet that supports maneuver of Marines and the expeditionary elements of that," Gen. David Berger says.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Gen. Hyten On The New American Way of War: All-Domain Operations
All-Domain Operations is"the biggest key to the future of the entire budget," the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said, "because if we figure that out, we’ll have a significant advantage over everybody in the world for a long time."
EXCLUSIVE Marines Tested Commandant’s New Vision In Largest Marine Exercise Since Cold War
In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing "what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”
Commandant: Marines ‘Not Optimized For Great Power Competition’
The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
Marines Kick Off A Year Of Wargames To Help Build New Force
“We’ve got to wrestle with ship mix and their capacity; there’s a balancing act.”
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Talisman Sabre: Land-Based Missiles Vs. China
The Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force tested new tactics for Pacific conflict, hand-in-glove with the Marines, Air Force, and Australians.
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs
“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships," the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what's next?
Marines: FVL Intriguing, BUT CH-53K Is Essential
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
The sea services have their own space specialists, but those personnel don't only work on space -- so who stays and who goes?
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix
Warships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year -- 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget -- fix the problem?
Marines, Navy Wrestle With How To Upgun Amphibs
The Marines want Vertical Launch System missile tubes on their new amphibious ships -- but the Navy isn't planning to leave room for them.
Marines Want Missiles To Sink Ships From Shores, And They Want Them Fast
“The Army is looking at this too but probably on a different timeline -- the Marine Corps wants to get after this pretty quickly.”
Defiant Gets Real: Sikorsky & Boeing Unveil SB>1 Super Chopper
After years of secrecy and CGI, we're finally getting to see the Sikorsky-Boeing dream team's SB>1 Defiant ultra-high-speed helicopter in real life. Now they just have to prove it works.