US Army looks for its conventional artillery to reach 70 km by 2023
by Andrew Galer
The US Army is looking to achieve its target goal of a 70 km range for conventional artillery by 2023, Colonel Anthony Gibbs from the US Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition confirmed at the online IQPC Future Artillery Conference on 25 May.
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AMRAAM Joint Program Office completes second live firing of new AIM-120D-3
26 May 2021
by Robin Hughes
The Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Joint Program Office (JPO) completed the second live-fire test of the new AIM-120D-3 variant AMRAAM over the US Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Point Mugu Sea Test Range in California on May 12. An initial AIM-120D-3 live-fire test was conducted on 9 December 2020. AMRAAM is managed as a joint programme between the US Air Force (USAF) and US Navy (USN), with USAF as the lead service.
During the live-fire test, the AIM-120D-3 weapon was launched from a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet and flew the expected flight path over the Sea Test Range. “These first two live-fire shots were unguided missile shots to verify the missile’s auto pilot for aircraft safe separation and to prove out the new GPS-IMU [global positioning system-inertial measurement unit] navigation and control system,” a spokesperson from the
Hindsight was 20/20 for a Redstone Arsenal optometrist as she reflected on the challenges of 2020 in a contest-winning essay.
Bridget Hayes, an optometrist at Fox Army Health Center, wrote the essay as an entry for a center-wide contest in honor of National Patient Safety Awareness Week this March.
Dr. Margaret Bates, deputy for quality and safety at Fox, put out the call for contest entries based on the theme âTogether We are Better, Stronger, Safer.â
âI wanted folks to shine a spotlight on how he/she contributes to patient care at this facility,â Bates said.
Deputies at the center judged the entries based on examples of achievements and contributions to patient safety, education and training that has been provided to patients, originality, and paragraph and sentence structure.