Joint Light Tactical Vehicles are pictured after arrival at the port of Aarhus, Denmark on January … [+] 16, 2023. – 600 vehicles and containers belonging to the US 2nd Armored Brigade and...
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Abrams Is The Best Main Battle Tank In The World. But Improving It Should Still Be A Priority.
Fighting in Ukraine has settled into a stalemate reminiscent of the Western Front circa 1916. Lots of artillery barrages and trenches, but little real movement. A favorite adjective of observers for d...
Ukraine’s American-Made M-1A2 Tanks Are Fast-Searching Hunter-Killers
A U.S. Army M-1A2 with a CITV—the optics on the right of the image. U.S. Army photo The 31 M-1 Abrams tanks the United States has pledged to Ukraine will be high-end A2 variants rather than older M-1A...
Ukraine Is Getting American M-1 Tanks. It Might Take A While.
A U.S. Marine Corps M-1A1. DVIDS photo When the Polish army went on one of history’s great tank-buying sprees starting a couple of years ago, it added to its multi-billion-dollar purchases of brand-ne...
NATO Countries Are Giving Ukraine Hundreds Of Their Old Howitzers—and Replacing Them With South Korea’s Excellent K-9
South Korean marines in a K-9 prepare to return fire after North Korean shells started a blaze behind them during a 2010 skirmish. South Korean defense ministry photo NATO’s eastern and northern membe...
There’s One Main Reason Ukraine Might Prefer German Tanks Over U.S. Tanks—The American Vehicles Guzzle Gas
A U.S. Army M-1 tank. U.S. Army photo Pressure is mounting on the German government to sign off on various European countries’ proposals to donate German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. But German of...
It Took Just Two Weeks For One Of The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Brigades To Get American-Made M-2 Fighting Vehicles
U.S. Army M-2 fighting vehicles and M-1 tanks at Grafenwoehr training area in Germany in 2018. U.S. Army photo Just two weeks after the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden announced it would do...
Ukraine’s M-2 Fighting Vehicles Aren’t Tanks. But They Sure Can Kill Tanks.
M-2s firing TOW missiles. U.S. Defense Department photo The version of the M-2 Bradley fighting vehicle that the United States is donating to Ukraine isn’t the latest version. No, it’s the variant of ...
Ukraine Could Get American M-2 Fighting Vehicles. They’re Exactly What The Ukrainian Army Needs To Stay On The Offensive.
U.S. Army soldiers dismount an M-2 alongside Hungarian solders in BTR-80 armored personnel carriers during a NATO training exercise. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden is c...
Bell’s V-280 Valor Just Won the Most Important Army Helicopter Competition In 40 Years
Bell’s V-280 tiltrotor has been chosen as the winner of the Army’s FLRAA competition to partially … [+] replace the H-60 Black Hawk. Bell Textron Inc It’s official. Yesterday, the U....
Iraq War Veteran Melissa Stockwell Keeps Soldiering On For Team USA
Para triathlete Melissa Stockwell poses for a portrait during the Team USA Tokyo 2020 Olympic shoot … [+] on November 22, 2019 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Ge...
The Most Promising Weapons Are All Non-Kinetic.
The current pattern of conflict in Ukraine suggests that the age of drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. Army, which leads joint efforts to counter the threat posed by unmanned air systems, anticipated...
Cybersecurity Is Entering The High-Tech Era
Cyber Threat Intelligence Concept – Collection and Analysis of Information about Ongoing and … [+] Potential Cyber Attacks – 3D Illustration getty There’s a sea change underway in ho...
The Russian And Ukrainian Armies Brace For The Dreaded ‘Wet Cold’ Winter
A Ukrainian tank in the Donbas mud. Ukrainian defense ministry photo There are two winters in Ukraine. The first, in the final couple months of the year, are cold—but not cold enough for a deep freeze...
Watch Eager Ukrainian Troops Roll Into Battle Atop A Tank
Social media capture One skirmish in one sector of one front of a wider war that’s grinding into its eighth month isn’t indicative of much. But watch closely the below video depicting volunteers from ...
The U.S. Army Can’t Attract Able Minds or Able Bodies. Its Fix
U.S. Army Soldiers march across the field of the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy at … [+] Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 14, 2022. The Soldiers belonged to the graduating clas...
Army’s Future Vertical Lift Competition Could Have A Devastating Impact On The Industrial Base
Sometime later this year, probably in September, the U.S. Army will select the winner of its biggest rotorcraft program since the Vietnam War era. As part of its Future Vertical Lift modernization pro...