Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare

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

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

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Italy's Army modernization finally seeing movement after years of delays Italy's budget has been in flux for years, with Army modernization being delayed. A trio of vehicles may be ready to turn that tide.

Saab's CEO wants a shot at an AWACS replacement competition "Of course, I would like to be part of an open competition when it comes to airborne early warning and surveillance," Saab CEO Micael Johansson said. "But whether that's possible or not in the US, I don't know."

Networks as 'center of gravity': Project Convergence highlights military's new battle with bandwidth In desert experiments, Army races to develop tactics for transferring data — and realizes high-def video can create potentially fatal data bottlenecks.

Robotic vehicles, drones coordinate recon at Army's Project Convergence 21 "It's this idea of collaborative sensing," said Col. Andre' Abadie, referring to one autonomous system talking to another to, say, confirm enemy positions or equipment.

Divining the future of heavy vertical lift in the Army With the Army focused on FLRAA and FARA, the question of heavy lift under the Future Vertical Lift program won't be answered for a decade or more. In the meantime, here's what the Army is thinking.

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.

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