Page 5 - Optically Tracked News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The $2.6 billion package includes $2.1 billion in new equipment and another $500 million in existing equipment.

The U.S. Department of Defense spokesman has elaborated on the latest package of security assistance to Ukraine, worth $775 million, approved on Friday. — Ukrinform.

Additional HARM missiles, which were included in the next $775 million military assistance package, enables Ukraine to seek and destroy the radars of Russian occupiers, the press service of the U.S. Department of Defense has reported.

The TOW, the Army’s first heavy anti-tank missile, first saw combat killing tanks in the Vietnam War. The Army wants a new missile with a range at least double that of the TOW. The U.S. Army is preparing to say goodbye to an old friend. The Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) anti-tank missile has served the Army for 50 years, tracking and destroying enemy armor in jungles, deserts, and even cities. The service wants a new missile that can travel twice as far, but also kill tanks closer than ever. ➡ In the early 1970s, the Army fielded what was then the heaviest, longest-...

2 Christopher Lowman, senior official performing the duties of Under Secretary of the Army, got an up-close look at some of the U.S. Army’s top air and missile defense programs while visiting with Program Executive Office Missiles and Space officials on March 23, at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Despite the seasonal rain and ongoing COVID-19 constraints, the visit was packed with PEO MS updates, a socially-distanced working lunch and weapon system displays and demonstrations. The tour began at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center, Sof...