StrikeShield APS: Game Changing Modular Protection With Lower Risk Of Detection
Rheinmetall’s hybrid solution integrates next-generation active and passive technologies for effective layered defense in a weight and power portfolio that works.
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
Why did an obscure Army program inspire headlines about "killer robots"?
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Army Adapts Aircraft EW To Protect Tanks: BAE RAVEN
Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?
Army Picks BAE Jammer To Kill Russian Missiles (Softly)
If RAVEN succeeds in the next, more challenging round of tests, the BAE jammer will ultimately go on the 1980s-vintage M2 Bradley. That's a big part of the Army’s urgent push to protect American armored vehicles against Russian-made anti-tank missiles in widespread use around the world.
12 Moments Of Truth For Army Modernization In 2019
WASHINGTON: At least a dozen major Army weapons programs face big decisions in 2019. The service will launch a competition for new armored vehicles; award development contracts for scout aircraft and helicopter engines; conduct key tests of long-range missiles, anti-aircraft defenses, rifles, targeting goggles, and multiple battlefield networks; and field new electronics for command posts.
M2 Bradley Gets An Iron Fist; Rival Trophy APS Wins $67M For Army, Marine M1 Tanks
Last month, the Army committed to buying an initial brigade's-worth of the Iron Fist Active Protection System for the M2 Bradley. Meanwhile, with Tuesday morning's announcement, the US is spending over $200 million to install the rival Trophy APS on not only Army but Marine Corps M1 Abrams tanks.
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Israel: Does Elbit’s Rise Mean IAI’s Downfall?
"Before I took office," IAI chairman Harel Locker said at a recent conference, "(I) realized that if the company did not change, it could collapse within a few years."
Army Bradley Brigade Will Get Israeli Anti-Missile System: Iron Fist
WASHINGTON: Seeking to stop Russian-made anti-tank missiles, the US Army will buy Israel’s Iron Fist Active Protection System for a brigade of its M2 Bradley armored vehicles, Breaking Defense has learned. The decision comes after weeks of confusing statements by Army officials and months of delays fitting the high-tech active protection on a Cold War-vintage […]
Israel Rolls Out 8×8 Eitan, Eye on Exports
Israel’s new Eitan armored personnel carrier is in final field testing with the celebrated Nahal infantry brigade, with series production to begin in 2021. Once the Israelis have enough Eitans to replace the last of their decades-old M113s, they plan to offer the new APC for export — and already foreign armies have sent observers […]
300 Shots: Rafael Readies Trophy Lite For US Stryker
The latest version of Israel's Trophy defense system stopped more than 95 percent of roughly 300 missiles and rockets shot at it in Israeli tests this summer, laying the groundwork for US Army testing this fall on the 8x8 Stryker armored vehicle.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Army Rejects Iron Curtain APS For Stryker, Launches New Programs
By 2022, the service plans to field new advanced reactive armor tiles to neutralize incoming warheads, a laser early warning system to warn crews they're being targeted, and a signature management effort to avoid detection in the first place.
Trophy APS For Everyone? A Streamlined Version For M2 Bradley
Even as the US Army races to install Trophy Active Protection Systems on its M1 Abrams heavy tanks, Trophy’s manufacturers are testing slimmed-down versions they want to sell the US for lighter vehicles, especially the aging M2 Bradley troop carrier. While other technologies look promising, Trophy is still the only non-Russian system that’s combat-proven to […]
All Armored Brigades To Get Active Protection Systems: Gen. Milley
"Once the US companies come on line," Gen. Milley said, "the intent is to outfit the entire heavy force — the Bradleys, the tanks, any future combat vehicles — with active protective systems.”
Guillotining Rockets: Iron Curtain Active Protection For Light Vehicles
Imagine explosive charges so precise they can cut apart an incoming warhead milliseconds before it hits your vehicle. That’s the operating principle for Iron Curtain, an Active Protection System whose computer brain makes 50,000 calculations in the time you take to blink. Installed on a frame around the vehicle that looks like a militarized shower […]