US Army successfully tests Iron Dome at White Sands Missile Range
The Israeli-made system successfully knocked down cruise missile threats during the testing run by the US Army.
Here’s the Army’s 24 programs in soldiers’ hands by 2023
The Army boasts that about two-thirds of its modernization priority programs will be in various stages of prototyping by fiscal 2023.
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Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
Army: Proposals For Cruise Missile Killer Due June 4
In August, the Army will pick a single vendor to build the Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC), focused on countering cruise missiles and larger drones. Later upgrades will add lasers and counter-rocket capability.
Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023
“In my career, certainly this is the most amount of modernization I’ve seen,” Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson says. Can multiple Army programs make their 2023 deadline?
GDLS Gets $1.2B For 144 Army Anti-Aircraft Strykers
General Dynamics Land Systems can now order materials to start building the first 28 vehicles, worth a total of $230 million, in 2021.
IBCS Defeats 2 Missiles in Flight – But 100s In Simulation
Thursday's near-simultaneous intercept of a cruise missile and a ballistic missile was far from the hardest thing the IBCS battalion has done.
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It's been a whirlwind of a year — and the defense establishment has plenty of thoughts on how it's unfolded and what might come next.
IBCS: Army Missile Defense Passes Most Complex Test Yet
Even with a relay taken down by jamming, the new IBCS network was able to fuse targeting data from Patriot and Sentinel radars, then shoot down two cruise missile surrogates with a single PAC-3 interceptor apiece.
Iron Dome Is Coming To US; Can The Army Plug It In?
Israel’s Rafael will soon ship the first missile defense battery to the US and wants to build a factory here. The really hard part: connecting Iron Dome to US Army command networks.
IBCS: Army Launches Massive Army Missile Defense Test
Postponed seven weeks by the pandemic, the high-stakes field test of the IBCS missile defense network is now back on, with elaborate precautions against COVID-19.
Army Invites Air Force ABMS To Big Network Test: Project Convergence
This fall’s experiment will study how the Army’s own weapons can share target data, Gen. Murray said, but in 2021 he wants to add the Air Force’s ABMS network.
Air Force cyber resilience in focus
Cyber resilience has become a frontline mission for the US military. Breaking Defense’s new eBook rounds up key reporting from the 2025 Alamo ACE conference with the latest developments in cyber offense and defense.
Project Convergence: Linking Army Missile Defense, Offense, & Space
The Army wants to do a tech demonstration in the southwestern desert – COVID permitting – of how the new weapons systems it’s developing can share data.
Army IBCS: Joint, Up To A Point
The Army’s eager to link its missile defense C2 network to the Air Force, Navy, and Marines – as long as that doesn’t slow the millisecond timing required to hit high-speed targets.
Iron Dome Doesn’t Work For Army: Gen. Murray
The Israeli-made system is incompatible with the US Army’s missile defense network, the head of Army Futures Command told us. So instead of buying more Iron Domes, he aims to hold a missile defense “shoot off” open to all comers.
US Army Signals Israel’s Iron Dome Isn’t The Answer
“It was developed for a very specific threat and it does incredible things...we intend to operate it differently -- in support of an Army on the move. It’s not just going to be static.”