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JLENS Helps Kill Iranian Boat Swarms, Cruise Missiles But Does Army Care?

Imagine Iran, for whatever reason, is threatening the Fifth Fleet, pledging to use its patented swarming boats to whup us. Well, the Army has spent almost $2 billion developing a capability that can track and provide “target-quality data” to protect the Navy from swarming Iranian attackers. It can also track and help kill cruise missiles. […]

By Colin Clark

Land Warfare

Rare New Program Start, JAGM, Rises From Acquisition Cemetery

WASHINGTON: One of the few entirely new major Pentagon weapon systems appears to be rising from the dead, with the $5 billion Joint Air To Ground Missile living on roughly $300 million of money already appropriated and securing supportive language in the House Armed Services Committee’s first draft of the defense policy bill. “The rumors […]

By Colin Clark