Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

The latest news and analysis on land warfare, from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

Army Starts Construction On Prototype Lasers Contractors are already "bending metal" on components for both 50-kilowatt and 300-kW lasers, Army scientist Craig Robin said.

Troops To Test AFRL's THOR Drone Killer This Fall THOR puts high-powered microwaves to fry drone swarms' electronics in a rugged and deployable package.

Poland Agrees To Pay Almost All Costs of US Troop Presence As the Pentagon starts planning to pull troops out of Germany, and demands more money from South Korea, Poland is opening its wallet to bring more Americans in.

Iron Dome Is Coming To US; Can The Army Plug It In? Israel's Rafael will soon ship the first missile defense battery to the US and wants to build a factory here. The really hard part: connecting Iron Dome to US Army command networks.

Live-Fire Tests In August For Army Air & Missile Defense After weeks of COVID delays, combat soldiers are now testing both the IBCS network and the IM-SHORAD vehicle at White Sands. The first live shots against flying targets are just weeks away.

Poland Wraps Deal For Permanent US Troops, Drones, Special Ops Poland is excited to have more US troops on the way, but military leaders warned this week that the effort to move 12,000 US troops out of Germany will take months for the planning along.

BAE Angles For GPS M-Code Market "These GPS receivers provide secure and resilient position data that can help our PGMs be more precise," explains BAE spokesperson Mark Daly.

Army Future Ops Depend On Cloud – But Not On JEDI The Army is experimentally consolidating all kinds of data to the cloud, from unit mobilization updates to target locations – without waiting for the long-delayed JEDI program.

Trump Contradicts SecDef On Germany Withdrawal Defense Secretary Mark Esper portrayed the plan as a strategic shift. President Trump said, "we're reducing the force because [Germany is] not paying their bills." Criticism from both sides of the aisle was swift.

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