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

H-47 Chinook Block II — Supporting The Soldiers

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The enhanced capabilities and performance of Chinook Block II will prepare troops of today for missions of the future.

Army AI Gets Live Fire Test Next Week In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps' fire support coordinator says he wouldn't go to war without it.

UAE, Saudis Team On Armored Vehicles For Kingdom; Precedent Setting Deal "This is a very important step that demonstrates a precedent," Khaled Al Zaabi, chief commercial officer at Nimr, told me. "We've never had such industrial military collaboration (in the region) so this definitely cements us as a major global player."

EXCLUSIVE: Army Airpower To Strike Deep In EDGE21 War-game New drones – launched by helicopters in flight and built by the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office – will reach out "hundreds of kilometers." Marine F-35s, 82nd Airborne troops, and Special Ops will also participate in exercise EDGE21.

Army Chief To Navy, Air Force: We've Got 'Speed & Range' "The future is all about range and speed," Gen. McConville declared, and longtime Army watchers perked up. With the other services circling for a prophesied budgetary "bloodletting", the Army really needs a clear and catchy argument for its modernization program.

Roles & Missions Scrub Needed For All Domain Ops: CSAF Brown The Pentagon needs to look at "seams, gaps and overlaps" as they implement the new strategy for All Domain Ops, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says.

Arab Gulf States Bolster Land Forces With New Battle Management Systems [Sponsored] As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) enhances the situational awareness capabilities of its army, other Arab Gulf States are also seeking to provide their land forces with state-of-the-art systems to keep their troops well informed of their operating environment and increase their lethality on the battlefield.

DARPA Builds AI To Avoid Army, AF Fratricide "ASTARTE helps solve the problem how to decide where physically to move [air assets] to conduct operations … even when it is an incredibly complex battlespace," says Tim Grayson, head of DARPA's Strategic Technologies Office.

Army Tests New Active Protection For Abrams, Bradley, AMPV & Stryker The Army's already installed off-the-shelf Israeli anti-missile systems on its M1 Abrams and tried similar tech on Bradley and Stryker. But what it really wants is a standardized yet customizable Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) it can install on a wide range of vehicles.

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