“We had battalions and squads with UAS that had not had them in that volume or at those echelons before. We endeavored to make contact with unmanned systems first,” said Col. Jim Armstrong, the commander of 1st ABCT, 3rd ID.
In the Georgia woods, Army tests combinations of line-of-sight and satellite links to keep in constant contact, but it's not perfect, or cheap.
As threats evolve, the winning model ties digital engineering to manufacturing capacity and a reindustrialized supply chain.
WASHINGTON: Vladimir Putin won’t blitzkrieg the Baltic states any time soon. It’s not his style, said the commander of the soldiers sent to the three small NATO nations last year to reassure them. That’s good news — especially in light of the bad news: The US effort to shore up its eastern allies and Ukraine, […]