“These tanks will be an essential part of our land defenses, and we have already been operating some of those tanks which we’ve been provided by the Americans in the past, so we already have teams of people who know how to use that equipment," the Ukrainian ambassador to Australia said.
An upcoming Initial Operational Test and Evaluation event will help service leaders determine just what near-term and long-term changes they want to make to the light tank.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Defense ministers from both countries hailed progress on industrial workshare for a project that they say "will be a real technological breakthrough in ground combat systems.”
Breaking Defense talked with a tank company commander who is helping to create the new units, which will mean less reliance on reservists for tank operations.
Latvia is heading up a new drone coalition while Poland will helm another focusing on armor, according to US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander.
“Every time it's like, go watch one [robotic tactical vehicle] follow another one around the parking lot and it runs over the curb and I'm like, ‘Come on, we got to do better than this,” Gen. James Rainey said today.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Tactics may change daily in modern combat, but tanks will always find a role, argues former senior Turkish officer Yavuz Turkgenci in this op-ed.
“I'm happy to report that toxic fumes were one of our concerns at the production decision and we've been doing some engineering and testing, and I can confidently say today that that is an issue that is behind us,” an Army official said.
Service FY24 budget documents unveil plans to buy fewer “light tanks,” M88 recovery vehicles, and halt upgunned Stryker procurement in the outyears.
The Army is considering an unmanned future system, but AEI’s John Ferrari and Charles Rahr argue the Abrams X is a better bet.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
The deal covers the purchase of 1,000 K2 tanks, 672 K9 self-propelled howitzers, and 48 FA-50PL light combat aircraft, with production benefits for Poland as well.
The new German tank, revealed at Eurosatory, is targeted at the export market.
The United States could not make enough military equipment fast enough to sustain its military in the event of a major war. While much thought has been given to how a great power conflict might erupt or play out, far less has been written on how the U.S. industrial base could sustain U.S. wartime equipment […]
Here's the real history of the nation's only factory for the massive M1 Abrams tanks.