The Robotic Test Demonstrator is serving as a "rolling laboratory" to test pretty much every subsystem, especially sensors, that an unmanned vehicle would need, says James Miller, BAE Systems senior business development director for combat vehicles.
AUSA: One of the most important lessons the US Army learned when Russia invade Ukraine was that signals intelligence can be very effectively used to target an enemy. Leidos is developing an aircraft on its own dime to make that widely possible for US and NATO forces, using its extensive experience in the classified world […]
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
"What you see before you is an aircraft ... providing a low-risk path for the Army to meet the timeline, the schedule, and the cost objectives."
How does a company best known for designing tiltrotors, which are notoriously wide, meet an Army requirement for a scout aircraft that can fly down narrow streets?
The upgraded arsenal will be the flagship of a much larger move towards advanced manufacturing across the Army. The goal: streamlining supply chains for major war.
The armored ground vehicles of the future will allow soldiers to do things their predecessors only dreamed about.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The Army has lots of ideas for AI. But it has to implement them without overwhelming troops or the network with too many apps and too much data.
Only one contender for the Army's future scout is derived from an aircraft that's actually flown. Guess which?
AVX is still a long shot in its bid to build the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, but their unique design is worth a long look.
The Army is intensely interested in issuing the system to its foot troops, especially for urban warfare.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Unlike Patriot, LTAMDS can watch for drones, missiles, and planes coming from all directions at once. A single LTAMDS side panel is twice as powerful as the entire Patriot radar.
“If you took all the bridging in NATO and put it together we couldn’t get a Brigade Combat Team across a 400-meter river," said the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Raytheon's Howler could shore up a critical weak spot in Patriot: defense against low-and-slow threats like drones.
PrSM will likely become the mainstay of future Army artillery brigades taking on everything from Russian anti-aircraft batteries to Chinese warships.