US Army successfully tests Iron Dome at White Sands Missile Range

US Army successfully tests Iron Dome at White Sands Missile Range
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

Here’s the Army’s 24 programs in soldiers’ hands by 2023
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.

Army: Proposals For Cruise Missile Killer Due June 4

Army: Proposals For Cruise Missile Killer Due June 4
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

Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023
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

GDLS Gets $1.2B For 144 Army Anti-Aircraft Strykers
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

IBCS Defeats 2 Missiles in Flight – But 100s In Simulation
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.

IBCS: Army Missile Defense Passes Most Complex Test Yet

IBCS: Army Missile Defense Passes Most Complex Test Yet
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?

Iron Dome Is Coming To US; Can The Army Plug It In?
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

IBCS: Army Launches Massive Army Missile Defense Test
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

Army Invites Air Force ABMS To Big Network Test: Project Convergence
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.

Project Convergence: Linking Army Missile Defense, Offense, & Space

Project Convergence: Linking Army Missile Defense, Offense, & Space
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

Army IBCS: Joint, Up To A Point
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

Iron Dome Doesn’t Work For Army: Gen. Murray
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

US Army Signals Israel’s Iron Dome Isn’t The Answer
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.”