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No, Mr. Trump, You Can’t Replace F-35 With A ‘Comparable’ F-18
President-Elect Trump’s recent announcement that he is considering acquiring the F/A-18 Super Hornet in place of the F-35 Lightning II does not add up for a leader who seeks “to make America great...
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Cyber/EW, Aviation, Air Defense, Artillery: CSA Milley’s Priorities
ARLINGTON: The Army needs new weapons to fight for the air, the airwaves and cyberspace against a high-end adversary such as Russia or China, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said today. While the...
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Army Must Be Ready For Multi-Domain Battle In Pacific ‘Tomorrow’
WASHINGTON: With one eye on China and another on North Korea, US Army Pacific is injecting cyber warfare and new joint tactics into every wargame it can. At least 30 forthcoming exercises — culminating...
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414 Ships, No LCS: MITRE’s Alternative Navy
WASHINGTON: The Navy needs a vastly larger fleet — 414 warships — to win a great-power war, well above today’s 274 ships or even the Navy’s unfunded plan for 355, the think-tank MITRE calculates in a...
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Army Races To Rebuild Short-Range Air Defense: New Lasers, Vehicles, Units
ARLINGTON: As Russia and other adversaries stock up on drones, rockets, and missiles, the US Army is building up defenses to shoot them down. But that Short-Range Air Defense force has been devastated...
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Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Nets: Adm. Harris
SAN DIEGO: The Army and Navy must link their missile defense systems into a single network so Navy weapons can hit targets spotted by Army radars and vice versa, the chief of Pacific Command said...
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Crunch Time For Army Missile Defense Network, IBCS
WASHINGTON: Northrop Grumman‘s IBCS network could revolutionize how the Army does air and missile defense, if they can get the software to stop crashing. Since Pentagon testers found in February 2016...
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Boeing Upgrades Air Defense Vs. Russians: Avenger SHORAD
Increasingly anxious about Russian drones and helicopters, the US Army is inviting contractors to demonstrate Short-Range Air Defense systems at a “SHORAD shoot-off” this September. The closest thing...
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Lockheed Pushes Q-53 Radar For Air Defense Vs. Russia
Just weeks after winning $1.6 billion to build more Q-53 artillery-tracking radars, Lockheed Martin is pushing the Q-53 hard as a triple-threat solution to drones and manned aircraft as well....
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Drone-Killing Laser Stars In Army Field Test
During a recent Army exercise, a prototype laser shot down so many drones that its operator started losing count. “I took down, I want to say, twelve?” Staff Sgt. Eric Davis told reporters. “It was...
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Navy Steers Well Away From An LCS Frigate
UPDATED w/ Sen. McCain’s “optimism,” Cdr. Clark’s analysis WASHINGTON: At 1:10 pm today, the Navy issued its official wishlist for its future frigate and set a 45-day deadline for shipbuilders to...
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Army Boosting Laser Weapons Power Tenfold
ARLINGTON: The Army is dialing up its lasers, from 5 to 10 kilowatt weapons that torched quadcopters in successful tests to 50 to 100 kW weapons that could kill helicopters and low-flying airplanes —...
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Laser In Front, Grunts In Back: Boeing Offers Anti-Aircraft Vehicles
ARLINGTON: Need to shoot down Daesh drones or Russian gunships? Boeing is offering the Army an array of ways to do it, from laser-armed 8×8 Strykers to missile-launching MATV trucks and tracked...
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LCS Lives: They Still Count In Age Of Frigates
Yes, the Navy has cut short its Littoral Combat Ship program and started work on a bigger, tougher, better-armed frigate. But the small ships will still be big part of the future fleet, experts we...
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Goodbye, MiG: Boeing, General Dynamics Debut Anti-Aircraft Stryker
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: If you fly Russian MiG fighters, Sukhoi attack jets, or Hind helicopters, your life just got a little harder — and in the event of war, potentially much shorter. At the Space &...
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Army: 50 kW Laser Stryker By 2021, 100 kW FMTV Truck By 2022
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: The Army keeps putting more powerful lasers on smaller vehicles. Battlefield lasers in testing today can shoot down snooping quadcopters and other small drones. By the early 2020s,...
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Laser In Front, Grunts In Back: Boeing Offers Anti-Aircraft Vehicles
ARLINGTON: Need to shoot down Daesh drones or Russian gunships? Boeing is offering the Army an array of ways to do it, from laser-armed 8×8 Strykers to missile-launching MATV trucks and tracked...
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LCS Lives: They Still Count In Age Of Frigates
Yes, the Navy has cut short its Littoral Combat Ship program and started work on a bigger, tougher, better-armed frigate. But the small ships will still be big part of the future fleet, experts we...
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Goodbye, MiG: Boeing, General Dynamics Debut Anti-Aircraft Stryker
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: If you fly Russian MiG fighters, Sukhoi attack jets, or Hind helicopters, your life just got a little harder — and in the event of war, potentially much shorter. At the Space &...
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Army: 50 kW Laser Stryker By 2021, 100 kW FMTV Truck By 2022
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: The Army keeps putting more powerful lasers on smaller vehicles. Battlefield lasers in testing today can shoot down snooping quadcopters and other small drones. By the early 2020s,...
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