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Army Warfighters Go Digital to Hone Skills
With more than 1 million servicemembers on active duty in the United States, the military services, and especially the Army, are running short of a critical commodity — training grounds. The problem, intensified by the winding down of two wars, is ratcheting up the interest of Army senior leaders in virtual solutions to real-world constraints. [...]
Army producing enhanced Stryker with double-V hull
By this summer, Soldiers in Afghanistan will be riding in new Stryker armored combat vehicles that have an improved hull design to protect them from improvised explosive devices and roadside mines. In the coming weeks, Soldiers in Afghanistan will begin to see 150 new Strykers with a double-V hull, or DVH, design that deflects blasts [...]
Finnish Defense Forces Criticise Sisu Vehicle Quality
The Finnish Army’s equipment department would like to cease co-operation with truck manufacturer Sisu Auto. According to an equipment department memorandum, there have been complaints about the quality of the all-terrain vehicles provided by Sisu Defense Oy, the company’s defence arm. Finnish carmaker Sisu Auto has been the Finnish Defence Forces’ most important all-terrain vehicle [...]
LM To Produce Equipment For US Army Tactical On-The-Move Network
Additional equipment is being produced for the U.S. Army’s on-the-move, high-capacity communications network that brings high-bandwidth, mobile, two-way satellite communications and ad hoc mesh radio connectivity to all Army echelons down to the company level. General Dynamics C4 Systems, the prime contractor for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), awarded Lockheed Martin a $105 million order [...]
US, Pakistan Continue Cooperation on Afghan Border
Despite a hiccup in communications between U.S. and Pakistani military units on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border following the Osama bin Laden raid, cooperation generally has been good and is getting better, the commander of International Security Assistance Force’s Regional Command East said today. Army Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, who also commands the 101st Airborne Division, [...]
‘Green bullet’ as effective as M855 round – consistently
Since June, the Army has fielded about 30 million of its new 5.56mm M855A1 “Enhanced Performance Rounds” in Afghanistan. The cartridge, sometimes called the “green bullet” because it has an environmentally-friendly copper core instead of the traditional lead, has been getting mostly good reviews in the 11 months since it first deployed to Operation Enduring [...]
Technology in US helicopter not so secret: expert
Pakistan or other countries may not have much to learn from the wreckage of a “stealth” US helicopter used in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, a defense analyst said Monday. The helicopter went down in a hard landing during last week’s raid that killed bin Laden, and US Navy commandos destroyed the chopper [...]
India begins wargames along Pakistan border
India kicked off war games involving thousands of troops Monday along its border with arch-rival Pakistan, which is still smarting from the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden. A military spokesman told reporters the six-day exercise, codenamed Vijayee Bhava (Be Victorious) was being held in the Thar desert region in the Indian state of [...]
US, Congolese military complete MEDLITE 11
Airmen and Democratic Republic of the Congo service members finished a joint-medical exercise here May 5. The MEDLITE 11 exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation to improve the readiness of personnel. According to Lt. Col. June Oldman, the director of MEDLITE 11, the exercise focused on five key points: reinforcing the training of the armed forces [...]
