urban warfare

Can tech reduce civilian deaths in conflict? Mark Milley isn’t so sure.

"How are we going to reduce civilian deaths to the smallest amount humanly possible?" asked Palantir's Alex Karp this week. "That is a tech problem.”

Israel, US team up for high-tech urban warfare competition

MoSAIC competition in Negev Desert will see next-level tech from digital room mapping to see-through-walls tech, some Israeli tech already combat-proven.

OMFV: Army Seeks Industry Advice On Bradley Replacement

Having rebooted the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, the Army is now is asking industry input on how to achieve nine goals, from survivability to mobility to streamlined logistics.

WarLoc: A GPS Alternative On Your Boot

The “warfighter localization sensor” from Robotic Research pinpoints your location, and you comrades’, without relying on satellite uplinks or static beacons. The secret’s in the network.

Knees Of Iron: Lockheed’s ONYX Exoskeleton

The Army is intensely interested in issuing the system to its foot troops, especially for urban warfare.

Realistic Simulators Boost Israeli Special Ops Troops

Breaking Defense contributor Arie Egozi was granted access to a usually classified simulator center Israeli troops and special operators use to train for particularly dangerous operations. Read on! The Editor.  TEL AVIV: An Israeli defense forces (IDF) commando unit prepares an attack on a target in an area controlled by hostile terror groups. When the […]

Sgt. Bellavia: Knife Fight In The House Of Broken Mirrors

The 29-year-old sergeant fought with gun, grenades, and knife in a dark house with sewage flooding the floor and broken mirrors glinting on the bullet-marked walls.

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 […]

Special Ops Command To Hold Flyoff Of Tiny Drones

Using lessons from places like Niger, commandos are looking for drones to carry blood to injured troops, as well as small systems that can fly indoors, through tunnels, swarm, and operate when being jammed.

Stalingrad Was Small: Multi-Domain Ops In Megacities

HONOLULU: As Seoul residents awaken to the whoomp, whoomp of the first North Korean shells and air raid sirens wail, millions pour from their apartments to the street, desperate for the shelter of the city’s 1,500 miles of deep tunnels. Some stream to the city’s rivers, hoping to head south. North Korean special operations troops, […]

Host of Israeli Weapons Look Likely for US Sales: Iron Dome To Iron Fist

As the US tightens its terms for financing the Israeli military, one of America's closest allies is beginning to sell its weapons to the US, instead of the other way around. 

War Games: Army Deletes Bureaucracy To Get Sims Fast

There is real uncertainty whether such things as robotic tanks and high-speed scout helicopters are possible on the Army's timeline. But if there's one area where a high-speed approach can work, it's training simulations, where the Army can piggyback on the rapid development in commercial gaming.

Will Milley Replace The Abrams Tank? Futures Command Advances

Army Futures Command is just a means to an end: modernizing the Army for high-intensity war against Russia or China. That includes replacing the iconic but aging M1 Abrams main battle tank, as well as other war machines, with an all-new Next Generation Combat Vehicle optimized for urban warfare, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Army Wants Armed Ground Robot Prototype by 2019

The new combat vehicles must be "optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain." Fighting in narrow streets, in turn, requires smaller vehicles than the massive M1 -- and one way to reduce weight is to take the humans out.