Tag: U.S. Army

The United States could deliver M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine much faster than expected

On January 24, Washington announced the shipment of 30 to 50 M1 Abrams heavy tanks to Ukraine, largely to unblock the situation in Europe over the German Leopard 2s, Berlin refusing to commit to delivery or authorize the delivery of its tanks without the United States having previously made the same announcement. However, it was quickly announced that the 31 tanks that will be delivered to Ukraine would not be taken from US Army stocks, as is the case with the German, Portuguese, Finnish or Polish Leopard 2s, but would the object of a special manufacture, in particular to eliminate certain components considered critical if they come…

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Iron Fist hard-kill system only protects American Bradleys 70% of the time

Entering service in the early 2010s to protect the Merkava tanks and the Namer infantry fighting vehicles of the Israeli armed forces, the hard-Kill Trophy and Iron Fist active protection systems of the Israelis Raphael and Elbit, have proven to be very effective during armed interventions in the occupied Palestinian territories, and intercepting dozens of RPG anti-tank rockets but also Konkurs and Kornet missiles fired by the Iranian Hezbollah. The fact is, no Israeli tank was lost during the military operations of the early 2010s, due to the firing of anti-tank ammunition. This efficiency has not escaped...

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The US Army's Leonidas microwave energy program reaches a new milestone

Long-range suicide drones like rodent munitions have unquestionably been one of the most significant technological military revelations in recent years. Easy and economical to produce, with a high destructive capacity, a range that can exceed 2000 km and near-metric precision, these drones represent a weapon with strategic capability once produced in large quantities, even for a country that does not have very significant resources. And if the term "Game Changer" is often overused and used wrongly in terms of weapon systems, it unquestionably applies to these new light drones, as it is today...

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Facing China, US precision ammunition stocks would only last a week

One week ! This is the time it will take for the US Navy and the US Air Force to deplete its stocks of long-range precision ammunition in the event of a conflict between the United States and China around the island of Taiwan. . This is essentially the observation made by the latest report from the American think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, which also points to the impossibility for American industry as organized today to meet the needs of a high-intensity war against a great power, if the conflict were to last, as is the case in Ukraine against Russia. And of…

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The US Army wants to densify its multi-layer anti-aircraft defense

In terms of anti-aircraft defence, the means employed vary considerably according to the resources but also the doctrines of the armies. However, two major doctrines have been facing each other since the appearance of anti-aircraft missiles in the mid-50s. The Soviet doctrine, applied today by Russia but also by China, is based on a multi-layered defense 5 levels, with a very high altitude anti-ballistic capability, represented by the S-300 PMU2 and by the new S-500 to come, a long range anti-aircraft capability and a low altitude anti-ballistic capability (inf 50 km) represented by the S-400, a medium altitude and medium range defense attributed to the systems…

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The US Army will have a first hypersonic capability from the end of 2023

The entry into service in 2018 of the Russian Kinzhal hypersonic airborne missile had the effect of a cold shower across the Atlantic, while the Pentagon had been accustomed to positioning itself at the top of the defense technological pyramid since the end of the 80s. Suddenly, Russia, a country perceived as defeated in the Cold War, with a GDP barely greater than that of Spain, was not only equipping itself with technology that the US armies did not have, but which they did not have. could, in the state, protect themselves. The reaction of pride from Washington and the Pentagon was on the scale of the sudden affront, since as early as 2019, no less than…

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The US Army worries about the endurance of its new extended range artillery guns

Among the lessons learned from the conflict in Ukraine, the central role of artillery in high-intensity conflicts is undoubtedly the most important, while heavy artillery capabilities had been neglected for the past 30 years, to the point of being reduced to their bare minimum in many Western armies, including the French Army and even the US Army. If the number of "tubes" per soldier has thus been divided by 3 since 1990 in the West, the performance of Western artillery systems has, for their part, experienced dazzling progress, both in terms of precision and range or mobility. . The arrival of modern systems…

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The US Army chooses the Bell V-280 Valor with tiltrotors to replace its Black Hawks

Increasing the tactical transport capacity by 50%, while going twice as fast and twice as far as a UH-60 Black-Hawk helicopter, such is the more than ambitious specification of the Futur Long Range Assault Aircraft program. , or FLRAA, one of the pillars of the Futur Vertical Lift program aimed at replacing, from the second half of the current decade, no less than 4000 rotary wings in service within the US Army, ranging from the OH-58 Kiowa reconnaissance (withdrawn from service in 2014) to the CH-47 Chinook heavy helicopter, through the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and the UH-60 Black maneuver helicopter…

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Lighter, hybrid and digital, the replacement for the M2 Bradley paves the way for the new generation of American armored vehicles

Intended to replace the M113 armored personnel carriers, as well as to counter the new Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles that entered service in 1966, the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle was one of the mainstays the BIG 5 super program launched in the early 70s by the US Army to modernize its capabilities and take into account the lessons of the Vietnam War but also of the two Arab-Israeli wars. The new armored vehicle from FMC Corporation, already at the origin of the M113 and the amphibious assault vehicle LVPT-7, broke deeply with the armored vehicles in service in Western armies, with in particular a turret…

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The US Army postpones the production of its Stryker DE M-SHORAD Guardian

With hypersonic weapons and advanced command and communication systems at the heart of the JDAC2 doctrine, directed energy weapons are today one of the main priorities of the Pentagon, and all of the American armies are committed to the development of several of these systems, whether high-energy lasers or microwave guns, both to protect ground troops and infrastructure, as well as combat ships and even aircraft. If the US Navy had long been at the forefront in this area, with the 60 Kw Helios system, the US Army has produced a very significant effort these…

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