The Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor is designed to detect threats from 360-degrees, ranging from UAS, 5th-generation fighters, helicopters, cruise missiles, and ballistic and non-ballistic missiles.
By Breaking DefenseThe Israeli-made system successfully knocked down cruise missile threats during the testing run by the US Army.
By Andrew Eversden“This is a journey to see what’s possible, what can we do with today’s technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” — $23 million.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.With the second battery now bound for the US, the Israeli-made missile defense system must prove it works with American command networks. “We have a very detailed plan to do the integration,” Rafael’s Pini Yungman told me.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The upcoming JADC2 Posture Review “will show the department exactly where we are deficient in executing our mission or missions,” Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.
By Theresa HitchensWeapons from hypersonics to howitzers have key deadlines to meet next year to keep to the Army’s ambitious timeline, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood and Brig. Gen. John Rafferty tell Breaking Defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Next fall, the Army aims to test a new artificial intelligence for artillery and fire the prototype PrSM missile to its full 300-plus-mile range — once they find a venue that’s big enough.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Army’s future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.How do you get targeting data from satellite to howitzer in less than 20 seconds, on a tactical network that was never designed to do that? You improvise, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
While Project Convergence’s first big test, the Army’s “experiment at scale for a combined arms operations,” was deemed a great success, the service must resist the urge to scale-up so rapidly that the events lose their value as experiments or become a fat target for budget cutters. The convergence tests, linking weapons, sensors, systems and…
By Thomas Spoehr