The American company General Dynamics showed a promising Stryker X infantry fighting vehicle. The vehicle will replace the Stryker infantry fighting vehicle, which has been in service for more than 40 years. The BMP is equipped with all-round sensors and provides the crew with a 360-degree view around. The soldiers inside the Stryker X are protected by an integrated active protection system. The vehicle was created on the basis of the Swiss Piranha III armored vehicle and is equipped with a hybrid diesel-electric power unit. The BMP is positioned as a reconnaissance vehicle with the maximum possible silent movement. The manufacturer does not provide technical data.
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Army 2030: Disperse or die, network and live - Breaking Defense
Long-range precision strikes are now so deadly that even rear-area support units must spread out and take cover to survive — which puts unprecedented strain on command & control networks.
US artillery officials nudging European armies to link their big guns
Regional artillery clusters are beginning to form among NATO members in key parts of the continent.
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Lockheed making moves to increase HIMARS production to 96 per year - Breaking Defense
Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) — as well as the the Javelin anti-tank missile system it co-produces with Raytheon — are seeing “significant” interest from foreign customers and the US military, Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet said.
Light Vehicles Bristling With Suicide Drones Were Trending At This Year's Army Convention
New configurations from AM General and Flyer Defense underscore growing interest in vehicles capable of deploying swarms of loitering munitions.
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Hero-120 slinger.
Switchblade 600 slinger.
Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon submit proposals for next-generation Stinger missile | InsideDefense.com
Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies are vying to supply the U.S. military’s next-generation short-range interceptor, with all three companies submitting bids, due last week, in an expected multibillion-dollar competition to design and build the follow-on to the venerable Stinger...
First Production AW609 Tiltrotor Finally Flies After Decades Of Development
We are finally getting close to discovering if the AW609 will provide a niche capability or if it will find more widespread demand.
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Ukraine’s Javelin Missiles Have a New Specialty: Shooting Down Russian Cruise Missiles
While it’s an imperfect capability, it’s nice to have in a pinch—especially when your adversary is striking civilian areas like playgrounds.
'Lightning in a bottle': Inside the 'Origin' of the Army's future robotic fleet - Breaking Defense
The Army's Project Origin robots have already changed the battlefield in exercises, but the office running the program says they're just getting started.
Army shifting $16 million from the S & T MAD-T Interceptor, Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense Technology program, cancelled in 2021 and transferring to PrSM to speed up production of the extended range ~1000 km PrSM Increment/Spiral 4 to 2026
Army shifting $16M toward Long Range Precision Fires Tech from canceled AMD project | InsideDefense.com
Presuming the MAD-T interceptor replaced by the Stinger replacement, NGSRI, Next Generation Short-Ranged Interceptor, the bids from Boeing, Lockheed and Raytheon were due in last week, initial contract award plan Spring 2023.
Orbit of Babel: SDA developing 'translators' to get data from ISR sats to warfighters - Breaking Defense
"Translator" payloads are necessary because many of today's commercial remote sensing providers do not, and will not, have the ability to equip their satellites with optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) required to link to the agency's Transport Layer birds, said SDA Director Derek Tournear.
Saab expects first contract soon for new GLSDB artillery weapon
The Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), which Boeing and Saab developed to provide long-range, ground-to-ground precision fires, is close to lining up its first...
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Army demos prototype technology to destroy cruise missile, delinks Patriot interceptor-radar | InsideDefense.com
The Army shot down a cruise missile target last week in a paradigm-changing demonstration of a prototype technology that could dramatically increase the defensive range of Patriot interceptors by allowing the guided missiles to use any sensor -- air, ground or sea -- available on the Integrated...
The US Army is attempting to take targeting from remote sources to a far greater level than this war. They are are attempting to integrate multiple disparate ISR sources into a common AI clearing house and the have another AI inventory in theater assets to engage them to solve the traveling salesman problems of assets in range and available factored for target priority. This will involve UAVs but testing has already involved commercial satellites; the goal is an ISR source independent system - drones, satellites, HUMINT, whatever so long as the data is formatted correctly. Project Convergence has achieved fire times measured in minutes and seconds, surely under ideal test conditions of course. But the direction is pretty clearly ubiquitous ISR with near instant response by fire units. Maybe not for years, but it is coming.
The US Air Force has unveiled the new B-21 Raider bomber. The manufacturer positions the bomber as the world's only sixth-generation aircraft. According to Northrop Grumman, the aircraft is capable of reaching anywhere in the world, carrying nuclear and conventional weapons, and overcoming the most advanced air defense systems thanks to improved stealth technology. Since the introduction of the B-2 Spirit aircraft, the B-21 Raider has become the first new US Air Force bomber in 34 years. It is reported that using cloud technologies, you can create a "digital twin" of the aircraft, which will help track the performance of combat missions. The B-21 Raider bomber has evolved from the B-2 bomber and should incorporate all the best. As previously reported, the B-21 should become cheaper in terms of purchase and operation costs than its predecessor, the B-2. This should be achieved by reducing the size of the new bomber and its carrying capacity, as well as partial unification with other US Air Force aircraft. The B-21 has been given a more durable surface material for stealth, requiring less maintenance effort and minimizing operating costs and downtime. The price of the aircraft is $750 million. The first flight of the B-21 Raider bomber should take place in 2023. Detailed specifications of the B-21 are classified.