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Land Warfare, Naval Warfare, Space

Army Moves Out On Lasers, Hypersonics: Lt. Gen. Thurgood

“You want to kill a swarm of things — whatever that thing is — lasers are not really a swarm-killing tool. They can kill things fast, but they can’t kill a swarm of things fast enough.”

By Colin Clark

Air Warfare, Networks / Cyber

Pentagon Jumpstarts Hypersonic Targeting, Electronic Warfare, C2

Can a new kind of contract get key cutting-edge technologies across the bureaucratic “valley of death” before the Russians and Chinese lap the US?

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare, Sponsored

Navy’s New Tomahawk Plan Targets Ships, Bunkers and Distance

WASHINGTON: As the Navy continues to look for ways to reach out and touch — or preferably deter — potential adversaries at greater range, it is turning to the latest version of a decades-old weapon to do it.

By Paul McLeary

Air Warfare, budget, Congress, Land Warfare

Army Will Cull Hypersonic & Laser Weapons Portfolios: Jette & Murray

While Congress wrestles with CH-47 cuts, Army leaders are already looking ahead to hard decisions on high tech.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare, Land Warfare

IBCS: Northrop Delivers New Army Missile Defense Command Post

After years of tests, setbacks, and painstaking fixes, the Army has its first fire-control center for a radically new kind of missile defense.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Global, Space, Threats

Russia Builds New Co-Orbital Satellite: SWF, CSIS Say

“I think the most important bits are … about the recent Russian RPOs likely being an SSA/intelligence program and possibly supporting the new Burevestnik co-orbital program,” said Brian Weeden, technical advisor to the Secure World Foundation.

By Theresa Hitchens

Air Warfare, Land Warfare, Naval Warfare

Army’s Multi-Domain Unit ‘A Game-Changer’ In Future War

But modernizing the Army will take decades and tough decisions about everything from online propaganda to the National Guard.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare, budget, Land Warfare

Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances

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.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Land Warfare

Army ‘Big Six’ Ramp Up in 2021: Learning From FCS

All told, the Army’s investing $57 billion in modernization over five years — but it wants to take time to test new technologies before it commits to them.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare, Land Warfare, Naval Warfare, Space

Hypersonics Won’t Repeat Mistakes Of F-35

Let a hundred hypersonic flowers bloom, Pentagon officials say, instead of a single cumbersome mega-program.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare, budget, Space

Pentagon’s New Ballistic Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, Suffers Years-Long Delay

What happens when the Pentagon’s new ballistic missile defeat program doesn’t work? They keep using the old one, which has a spotty track record.

By Paul McLeary

Air Warfare, Global, Naval Warfare, Threats

Why DoD Cut A Carrier in 2020 Budget: Survivable Robots & Missiles Vs. China

An inside source explains the logic behind the 2020 budget’s most controversial call.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare, Congress, Land Warfare

Army Reboots Cruise Missile Defense: IFPC & Iron Dome

The new approach will focus on an urgent but largely unmet threat: Russian and Chinese cruise missiles.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare

Small Jets For Big Swarms: Kratos Buys Turbine Tech Company

“These are engines that would fit on your tabletop,” said Kratos exec Stacey Rock. “We don’t want hundreds of ‘em, we want thousands [of drones] to overwhelm the threat.”

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.