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December 24, 2020

NORAD and Santa Claus: How the tracker got started

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And NORAD has its eyes on him for the 65th straight year.

December 9, 2020

How the Army’s new light tank and combat vehicles were born

U.S. Army weapons developers, Pentagon leaders and industry armored vehicle builders are all experiencing tremendous enthusiasm over progress with a new light tank, called the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF), as well as its emerging fleet of Next-Generation Combat Vehicles (NGCV). 

December 9, 2020

James Carafano: Does Biden pick Lloyd Austin have what it takes to be an outstanding defense secretary?

President-elect Joe Biden’s announcement Tuesday that he will nominate retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin — an accomplished leader with a distinguished military career — as secretary of defense raises two critical questions.

December 8, 2020

14 soldiers fired, suspended from Fort Hood after widespread violence, sexual harassment

Fourteen officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood were fired or suspended Tuesday, and Army leaders announced several policy changes after an independent investigation revealed a toxic culture that fueled sexual harassment and failed to protect female soldiers from harm. 

December 6, 2020

Newt Gingrich: Mike Flynn is victim of a political hatchet job — he’s a great American patriot

Flynn and his family endured tremendous pain and threats from the government he served for three decades until he was pardoned Nov. 25 by President Trump.

November 25, 2020

Pentagon innovates new weapons to 'fight through' next-gen cyberattacks

The flight trajectory of ICBMs, targeting accuracy of an Abrams tank 120mm cannon, sharing of enemy location intelligence in real-time or the decreasing of critical sensor-to-shooter times for small arms, missile attacks, bomber strikes and other weapons systems … increasingly rely … on computer systems. 

November 18, 2020

Pentagon pursues 'hack proof' fighter jets and armored war vehicles

What if an armored combat vehicle was rapidly moving to enemy contact through rigorous terrain while facing enemy fire, when its navigational and targeting systems were suddenly given false, wrong or misleading information ... thus derailing the mission?

November 12, 2020

New Army weapons program ground-fires Navy Tomahawk, SM-6

It can loiter over targets while sending back video through a two-way data link. It can destroy targets from ranges out to 900 miles. And now, it can adjust course in flight to destroy moving targets … the Tomahawk missile, often the first weapon to strike in combat, will now be fired as a land weapon.

November 11, 2020

National museum dedicated to Army debuts on Veterans Day

A sword from the defense of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. A stopped wristwatch recovered from the wrecked E-Ring of the Pentagon on the Sept. 11 attacks. The Sherman tank that first broke through enemy lines at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

November 11, 2020

Army finds new way to win close-in fight

If an enemy fighter was several hundred yards away, another was attacking from one mile away, while yet a third fired from a nearby room in a close-quarters urban warfare circumstance, how would U.S. Army soldiers apprehend, integrate and quickly map the locations of multiple targets at once in 3D, all while knowing the range and distance of the enemy forces?