Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare

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

/

Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

American Rheinmetall Vehicles' Lynx OMFV: Overmatch Today. Overmatch Tomorrow.

Presented by Rheinmetall

American Rheinmetall Vehicles, Raytheon Technologies, L3 Harris Technologies, Textron Systems, and Allison Transmission are designing America's next-generation infantry fighting vehicle. Learn more.

Northrop Grumman Eyes Next-Gen SIGINT For Army "So I think [the concept of integration is] so simple and yet so hard to achieve," Northrop VP Walsmith said. "You need to be able to integrate applications, whether they're your own or someone else's, with ease and simplicity. It is easy to say. It's very hard to engineer."

German Defense Company RENK Group Unveils American Subsidiary The American subsidiary wants to give the Army and primes a "one point of contact" for vehicle propulsion.

Countering Asymmetric Threats With High-Energy Lasers [Sponsored] Raytheon's high-energy laser weapon systems is part of the U.S. Army's Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) program.

Backed By Army, Smart Shooter Now Looks To Sell Counter-Drone Tech To Marines TEL AVIV: Already selected by the US Army, Israeli firm Smart Shooter is now hoping to get its SMASH 2000 automated targeting system into the hands of US Marines. The SMASH 2000, which boasts the ability to give a "one shot, one kill" capability to small arms, is currently being tested by the Marine Corps…

Poland's Self-Propelled Mortar Gets A Redesign The new chassis provides a much higher level of anti-mine and ballistic protection than previous designs for a key part of Poland's land forces.

The US Army Is About To Launch Its New Missile At 'Max' Range Wednesday's test of the Precision Strike Missile will attempt to go 499 km.

McConville: Soldiers To See Prototypes Of 24 'Signature' Modernization Systems By FY23 Army Chief of Staff said modernization efforts are "already paying off."

Army's Mid-Range Capability Builds On Navy Missiles To Speed Fielding The Army is on track to deliver a first prototype MRC by 2023, said Marcia Holmes, deputy director at the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office.

Army To Field Project Convergence Tech 'As Quickly As Possible' AUSA: As the Army puts scores of cutting-edge technologies and capabilities through the ringer at its Project Convergence experiment the deserts of Arizona over the next four weeks, top Army officials are watching closely to see what survives and to get it into the hands of soldiers "as quickly as possible." "If it works, we're…

Advancing The Science Of Breast Cancer Research For Soldiers And Families [Sponsored] October is Breast Cancer Month, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine is waging a highly modernized war on breast cancer.

Army General: Missiles To 'Overwhelm' Adversary Must Be Requirement for JADC2 "Penetrating and disintegrating A2/AD is the fundamental problem of all-domain operations. It's the hardest problem we've got," said Brig. Gen. John Rafferty.

'Global By Nature': Generals Say Unified Network Is 'Operational Imperative' "I will offer you there will be no sanctuary in the next fight. We have to have a resilient network," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.

The Future Of Tactical Vehicles Is In Electrification And Autonomy [Sponsored] GM Defense is translating its parent company's experience in electrification, autonomy, and connectivity to tactical vehicles.

With All Eyes On China, US Army Must Ensure It's Prepared To Deter Russia In Europe A "myopia for the Pacific too often overlooks, to America's peril, Russia and its growing land forces," warns Dan Goure in this op-ed.

Block II Chinook: Still The Answer – Now And In The Future [Sponsored] With greater lift and increased commonality, the Army's heavy-lift helicopter just keeps getting better.

Breaking Defense
611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012
unsubscribe