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At the very least they need to be prepared to deter Russian or Chinese agression.
Here s What You Need to Remember: While the Army naturally does not expect or seek a particular conflict with near-peer nations like Russia and China, the service is indeed acutely aware of the rapid pace of their military modernization and aggressive activities.
The Army is developing its weapons, technologies and platforms with a greater emphasis on being ready for great-power, mechanized force-on-force war in order maintain cross-the-board readiness and deter near-peer adversaries from unwanted aggression.
While the service aims to be prepared for any conceivable contingency, to include counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and hybrid-type conflicts, the Army has been shifting its focus from 15-years of counterinsurgency war and pivoting its weapons development toward major-power war.
The Army is planning to begin the initial operational test for its new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) in January 2022, which will start after the ser
TEL AVIV: On March 14
th, the Israeli army and contractor Elbit unveiled a new precision-guided 120 mm mortar shell which will enter IDF service in months – and which, confidential sources say, will be demonstrated for the US Army by the end of the year.
The US could easily adopt the Israeli shell because it uses the same caliber of mortar, 120 mm, on special fire-support variants of its 8×8 Stryker (which may also get an Israeli anti-missile system) and the tracked Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV). What’s more, the US Army has been looking to upgrade its mortars for some time, including a field-test of a computerized 81 mm mortar called ADIM (Automated Direct/Indirect-fire Mortar) in Germany in 2018. It’s already developed some advanced aiming systems for existing mortars but Iron Sting goes further.
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