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With experienced pilots and ground crew leaving the service in droves, the Army is struggling to balance equipment modernization and unit training for large-scale, drone-driven war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
Ukraine’s success against Russia in the skies shows how tactics have changed, in ways Taipei could replicate, write analysts Kelly Grieco and Julia Siegel.
By Kelly Grieco and Julia Siegel
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The Royal Air Force is set to become the world’s first operational user of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian, the world’s most advanced medium-altitude, long-endurance RPAS.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
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The Royal Air Force is set to become the world’s first operational user of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian, the world’s most advanced medium-altitude, long-endurance RPAS.
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Now being integrated on the F-35B, F/A-18E/F, and F-15E, the StormBreaker glide bomb has an advanced tri-mode seeker and is the first network-enabled weapon in the Air Force inventory.
By Breaking Defense
The takeaway from the last 20 years, according to aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia, might well be, “You succeeded, but please don’t try that again.”
By Valerie Insinna
New Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
Taking possession of two MQ-9A is a significant mile marker in the Marine Corps’ efforts to establish its No. 2 acquisition priority, MUX.
By Justin Katz
As the Army races forward to take flight in its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), Breaking Defense contributor and acquisition expert Bill Greenwalt sees too many troubling parallels with the Air Force’s infamous production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. With taxpayer dollars and Army tactical capabilities in the balance, he argues in the op-ed…
By Bill Greenwalt
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Unmanned aircraft have changed warfare, security operations and much more in their first decades of widespread use. As the nature of war evolves, GA-ASI’s aircraft and systems will be ready to evolve too and lead the way into new counter-air roles– and beyond.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Iran takes center stage in an excerpt from Seth J. Frantzman’s “Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future.”
By Seth J. Frantzman
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The new era of seapower requires new approaches and new tools for the U.S. military and its allies.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
The wargame will also test new aircraft weapons — a 20 mm cannon and a multi-payload launcher— and a host of electronics enabled by a plug-and-play open architecture, MOSA.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon can fly over 2,775 km, an Army official told Breaking Defense. That figure probably applies to the Navy’s CPS version as well.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“When it comes to digital warfare, practice makes perfect, and we cannot begin practicing soon enough,” writes Schuyler Moore, Chief Technology Officer of US Central Command.
By Schuyler Moore