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As the annual Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference picks up speed in the nation’s capital, the larger military’s years-long Pacific “pivot” looms in the background, drawing the eyes of Army leaders and the crosshairs of Army tech. The Lexington Institute’s Dan Goure argues in the commentary below, however, that America’s premier land forces can’t take their eye off the ball — or the bear — in Europe. (Follow Breaking Defense’s AUSA 2021 coverage here.) It has become almost an article of faith in the Department of Defense th...

A flight-proven tiltrotor and advanced helicopter are the optimum solutions for transformational air assault and attack/recon.

The US Army has fielded its first combat-capable laser weapon prototype. Developed in only 24 months, the solid-state DE M-SHORAD laser was mounted on a Stryker combat vehicle and participated as an Army maneuver element for the first time.

The Army’s move to integrate a mature and capable off-the-shelf weapon onto its Apaches seems like an all-around win for keeping the Army’s Apache helicopter fleet tactically and financially viable in the coming decades.

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 20, 2021 at 6:01 AM Technicians work with a robot’s control system during last fall’s Project Convergence wargames. WASHINGTON: Hundreds of scientists, engineers, and support staff at nine locations worked feverishly earlier this month testing dozens of technologies ahead of this fall’s joint Project Convergence wargames. The hub for the event, Communications Exercise (COMEX) 2, was a new facility at the Army’s Aberdeen, Md. C5ISR Center, the Joint Systems Integration Laboratory. Gen. James McConville The JSIL was touted by no less a figure tha...