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With time and political will, Ukraine could get a lot more M-1s. Any old M-1 hull—the U.S. Army has around 3,000 in storage—can become an M-1A1SA.

Five crew members aboard an MH-60 Black Hawk of the U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment have died in the crash of a Special Operations helicopter off Cyprus.

Opinion: The modern battlefield is like the ocean: there is nowhere to hide, so survival depends on the ability to avoid targeting and maintain a stealthy posture.

Thirty years ago, Ralph Hayles fired the missiles that killed two American soldiers in Iraq. Ever since, he has worked to develop technology that could prevent similar deaths, while the military has looked elsewhere to address the problem—with little success.

Rather than send new tanks that would take a year to arrive, the U.S. is sending refurbished M1A1 tanks that can arrive sooner. But is that good enough?

While the DoD's weapons tester had a few criticisms regarding the Army's electronic warfare enterprise, it assessed there were improvements as well.

The M1 Abrams has been the United States' primary ground combat armor since entering service in 1980 and remains one of the best tanks ever made.

CPT Mahdi Al-Husseini, HH-60M pilot and serial Army inventor, discusses how the 25th Infantry Division’s Lightning DUSTOFF company has consistently leaned forward on modernization initiatives in tandem with academia and industry, to improve aeromedical evacuation efforts Army-wide

A year into the invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq-bound soldiers in a remote desert camp somewhere in Kuwait. With the holiday season in full swing, the Secretary may have expected a quick meet-and-greet to reiterate that the well being of the troops remained a priority. The soldiers, however, had other plans in mind.

RESTON, Virginia. Inmarsat Government has won a contract worth up to $410 million from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide satellite communications to support connectivity for the U.S. Army's Blue Force Tracker system, the company announced in a statement.