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

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American Rheinmetall Vehicles is offering a new variant of Rheinmetall's next-generation Lynx KF41 Infantry Fighting Vehicle in support of the US Army's Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program.

Esper's New Push For Allies; Gilday Unveils 'Tech Bridge' To Royal Navy The new plan will focus on four areas, "underwater, our carrier programs, our Marines — so working with the US Marine Corps and their drive for distributed warfare — and linking that with what we want to do with our Royal Marines, and the future commando force." First Sea Lord Adm. Tony Radakin says.

OMFV: Rheinmetall, Textron & Raytheon Offer Lynx For Bradley Replacement – Again These companies teamed up for the Army's first, stillborn attempt to build a new armored troop carrier in 2019. This time they're offering "a new variant."

BAE Offers Truck-Mounted Howitzer For Army Stryker Units Already fielded in Sweden — and mounted on a Volvo truck — BAE's 155 mm Archer will compete in a US Army "shoot off" early next year.

MPF: Light Tank Competitors BAE & GD Head For Soldier Tests BAE and General Dynamics are vying to build 504 Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles to support light infantry units, especially in places the massive M1 Abrams cannot go.

Army Modernization's Day of Reckoning Is At Hand [Sponsored] Regardless of who wins the November election, the flow of resources which has undergirded modernization is almost certain to decline.

Army Vehicle Modernization: Mounted Mission Command And Onboard Power [Sponsored] The Army's Future Lies in All Domain Command and Control. Leonardo DRS' tactical mission command system and onboard vehicle power can play key roles.

FVL: Army's High-Speed Helicopters Hurtle Ahead Bell and Sikorsky have started building their competing prototypes for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) ahead of a Final Design Review in November. The vital digital architecture is still in development.

Army Combat Training Centers Return to Pre-COVID Levels Some 19 brigades will hold wargames at the CTCs in 2021. That's shy of the pre-COVID peak of 21 last year, but above the average for 2015-2019.

Army Dissects Black Hawk Helo, Scans Parts For 3D Printing Before you can 3D print a part, you need a detailed 3D model of it. So Army Material Command is figuring out how to scan tens of thousands of parts. One method: pull apart an entire helicopter.

The Army Mission Command Computing System That You Don't Know [Sponsored] The Mounted Family of Computer Systems II Operates in Contested Environments, controlling robotic vehicles and unmanned aerial systems.

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