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USNI News Report to Congress on Army Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle Program April 20, 2021 11:13 AM The following is the April 19, 2021 Congressional Research Service report, The Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report In June 2018, in part due to congressional concerns, the Army announced a new modernization strategy and designated the Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) as the program to replace the M-2 Bradley. In October 2018, Army leadership decided to redesignate the NGCV as the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehi...

$30 Billion Boondoggle: Meet 5 Super Weapons That Failed Washington is more than willing to spend on wonder weapons, but that doesn't mean it is always worth it. Here's What You Need to Know: A lot of money went down the drain thanks to these weapons. The United States spent $610 billion in 2018 on defense, roughly one-third of all military spending on the planet—but that doesn’t mean that money is always being used efficiently. Over thirty years, the U.S. Army has engaged in two long-term wars and several briefer ones without replacing the major weapon systems which entered service in t...

Gen. John Murray In March, BD’s Sydney Freedberg and Theresa Hitchens sat down for an exclusive hour-long interview with Gen. John “Mike” Murray, chief of Army Futures Command: Click here for Part I, Part II, and Part III. There was so much good material in these interviews that we decided to print this extended excerpt, edited for length and clarity, focusing on the vital issue of Joint All Domain Command and Control. A: China is absolutely taking primacy in terms of pacing threats. It’s really an operational defense that we like to call A2/AD or anti-access/area denial, because it�...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 17, 2021 at 2:24 PM A soldier tests the ENVG-B inight vision goggles n 2019. (Chris Bridson / Army) WASHINGTON: The Army aims to outmaneuver and outthink its adversaries so thoroughly it achieves “decision dominance,” its generals said in unison this week. Will the new term became the latest bureaucratic buzzword or shed real light on how the future force should fight? Gen. James McConville The Army must move faster, McConville, declared, both as an institution developing new weapons – not in decades, but in a few years – and as a battlefield f...

US M1 Abrams vs. Russia's Armata: Who Wins This Tank Showdown? There can be only one winner.  Here's What You Need to Remember: Further, there is the question of whether the T-14 can be produced in numbers—that’s very much a factor, given the state of Russia’s economy. Ultimately, it could prove to be a formidable weapon. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the spectre of a massive armored Red Army juggernaut smashing its way through the Fulda Gap is long past, but Russia has continued to develop new tanks and armored vehicles. Meanwhile, the United State...