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.
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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
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.
Live-Fire Tests In August For Army Air & Missile Defense
After weeks of COVID delays, combat soldiers are now testing both the IBCS network and the IM-SHORAD vehicle at White Sands. The first live shots against flying targets are just weeks away.
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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.
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.
COVID-19: Army Delays Missile Defense Network Test EXCLUSIVE
The long-awaited IBCS battle network is meant to connect a wide range of Army radars and weapons – and potentially other services’ as well – for anti-aircraft and missile defense.
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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.”