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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Army Tries Out Humvee-Mounted Howitzer How do you safely fire a 105 mm cannon off the back of a Humvee? With a unique recoil-reduction system.

Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.

SOCOM's Armed Overwatch To Fly Grueling New Test Each airplane will have five flights to prove its mettle, with an AFSOC pilot in the back seat for the final mission to observe the plane's flight and handling characteristics.

Robot Black Hawk To Fly In Project Convergence 21: MOSA Key The wargame will also test new aircraft weapons — a 20 mm cannon and a multi-payload launcher— and a host of electronics enabled by a plug-and-play open architecture, MOSA.

'No More Fruit' In Army's Budget Tree: McConville The Army's prioritized so ruthlessly that the top 11 percent of  programs will get 50 percent of the funding. The other 89 percent can't take any more cuts without it killing them.

Marine Commandant Finding A Way To Modernize With Flat Budgets Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger's announcement comes amid the radical changes he is making in how the Corps equips itself, and deploys.

Wormuth Defends Army Budget, Missile Programs The nominee for Army Secretary also aims to end "friction" between civilian acquisition officials and Army Futures Command, she told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Army Faces 'Almost Impossible Choices': Gen. Murray Some 22 of the Army's 35 top programs are supposed to field some kind of capability in the next four years, even as budgets drop.

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