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From Grey Spaghetti To Color-Coded Targets: Raytheon’s New Interface For Patriot
Hollywood gives us the idea that US troops control their weapons with the latest video game-style graphics in glorious, full-color 3D. The reality is more like Pong — only with life and death at stake.
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Army Boosts Investment In Lasers
AUSA: The Army is investing more and more money in lasers to defeat incoming rockets and enemy drones. Across the Air & Missile Defense (AMD) portfolio, “we put over 50 percent of our S&T...
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Beyond INF: Countering Russia, Countering China (Analysis)
“Long-range precision fires… would provide us the capability (to) either, for example, support the Air Force by suppressing enemy air defenses at hundreds upon hundreds of miles or support the Navy by...
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China Has Built ‘Great Wall of SAMs’ In Pacific: US Adm. Davidson
From militarized atolls in the South China Sea to a growing Chinese navy looking increasingly aggressive, the head of the Indo-Pacom command lays out his needs and concerns.
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Chinese Pilots ‘Safe & Professional’– For Now: PACAF
But while the skies are quiet today, US Pacific Air Forces are preparing for possible conflict: fielding new weapons like the F-35 stealth fighter and the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), adding...
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AI In Your Eye: Army Goggles Will ID Targets Automatically
Army soldiers are testing goggles with an image-recognition system that can automatically spot threats like tanks and warn the rest of the squad — or transmit the target data to a distant missile...
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The US & China: A Colder Peace or Thucydides’ Trap?
As President Trump pushes Beijing on trade and cyber espionage, the United States and China are on a collision course. The U.S. urgently needs a new strategy to avoid the traditional fate of rising and...
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12 Moments Of Truth For Army Modernization In 2019
WASHINGTON: At least a dozen major Army weapons programs face big decisions in 2019. The service will launch a competition for new armored vehicles; award development contracts for scout aircraft and...
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Hack, Jam, Sense & Shoot: Army Creates 1st Multi-Domain Unit
A new Army unit will hack and jam enemy networks and provide targeting data for both long-range missiles and missile defense.
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
Why did an obscure Army program inspire headlines about “killer robots”?
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US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix
Warships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year — 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget — fix the problem?
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Army Reboots Cruise Missile Defense: IFPC & Iron Dome
The new approach will focus on an urgent but largely unmet threat: Russian and Chinese cruise missiles.
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Army ‘Big Six’ Ramp Up in 2021: Learning From FCS
All told, the Army’s investing $57 billion in modernization over five years — but it wants to take time to test new technologies before it commits to them.
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Lasers, Hypersonics, & AI: Mike Griffin’s Killer Combo
How will the US kill enemy hypersonic weapons in future war? The Pentagon’s research chief has some high-tech ideas.
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IBCS: Northrop Delivers New Army Missile Defense Command Post
After years of tests, setbacks, and painstaking fixes, the Army has its first fire-control center for a radically new kind of missile defense.
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Army Moves Out On Lasers, Hypersonics: Lt. Gen. Thurgood
“You want to kill a swarm of things — whatever that thing is — lasers are not really a swarm-killing tool. They can kill things fast, but they can’t kill a swarm of things fast enough.”
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Can Bolton & His Russian Counterpart Defuse Israeli-Syrian Tensions?
TEL AVIV: The Syrian civil war may seem to be winding down, but Israel is increasingly anxious after Russia’s surprise announcement it will give Syria full control of sophisticated S-300 air defense...
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US-Turkey Relations At Precipice; Turks Start S-400 Training
The Pentagon appears to be ready to take further action in the long-running saga over Turkey and the F-35.
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Eye On Iran, Israelis Conduct Huge Two-Week Exercise On Cyprus
TEL AVIV: As the Middle Eastern kettle boils hotter, Israel is striving to improve the readiness and efficiency of its forces with regional exercises aimed, in part, at building de facto regional...
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UPDATED: Centcom Confirms Reaper Shoot Down, Says Iran And Houthis Fired At...
A day after two commercial tankers are hit in the Gulf of Oman, reports emerge the Houthis are firing — and hitting — US aircraft.
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