June 8, 2020 Army Futures Command general describes how future wars will look Gen. John Murray, commander of Army Futures Command, explains what future wars will look like.
June 5, 2020 Army maps plan for its new armored combat vehicle The Army’s new combat infantry vehicle has gone digital, meaning the service hopes to optimize design plans using computer modeling “before” bending metal on new prototypes.
June 4, 2020 Army Patriot missile connects with Air Force F-35 to destroy cruise missile Imagine cruise missile threats streaming through the air toward multiple vulnerable targets. As that happens, radar nodes light up across a wide-spanning territory as an airborne F-35 senses the attack. The stealth fighter then hands off targeting data to ground-based U.S. Army Patriot interceptor missiles, knocking the approaching missiles straight out of the sky and destroying the attacking threat.
June 3, 2020 New Army ‘Team Ignite’ force prepares for future wars Tanks controlling air-ground robots, AI-enabled targeting and reconnaissance, attacking in milliseconds, vehicle and aircraft-fired lasers, self-guiding ammunition, morphing swarms of autonomous drones and fast, real-time, multi-domain networking are all anticipated elements of warfare in 2040.
June 2, 2020 Army researcher: Coronavirus vaccine may be available by end of year A senior Army researcher said Tuesday that a coronavirus vaccine could possibly be available to some parts of the United States within the year.
June 2, 2020 Ari Fleischer says governors are 'fools' not to call in National Guard: 'Do your job' America's governors are "fools" not to call on the National Guard to protect their residents amid riots after the horrific death of George Floyd, former White House Press Sec. Ari Fleischer asserted Tuesday.
June 2, 2020 Harold and Rachel Earls: Mt. Everest lessons — they can help in our battle against COVID-19 My senior year at West Point I decided to go after one of the items on my bucket list: Climb Mount Everest.
May 28, 2020 Army builds new 18.6-mile-range tank-killing weapon The U.S. Army and Raytheon are working on a newly configured tank-killing “Shaped Charge” 155m precision-guided artillery round as part of a large-scale strategic attempt to outrange enemies and destroy approaching enemy armored columns at safer standoff ranges.
May 22, 2020 Army adapts warfare-designed thermal imaging to war on coronavirus The U.S. Army has adapted emerging high-speed thermal imaging goggles to help dismounted infantry engage in close-in, crossfire combat to save lives in the service’s war on COVID-19.
May 22, 2020 Army scientists develop new 'materials' for hypersonic weapons attack They can take out targets faster than enemies can respond by destroying a wide range of air, sea, land and space targets. Traveling at five-times the speed of sound, they are nearly impossible to defend against and place fighter jets, ships, ground vehicles, satellites and ground assets at tremendous risk of nearly instant destruction -- they are hypersonic weapons.