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Army Assisting Libya Operations with RAF
British Army personnel are taking to the skies over Libya in RAF Sentinel aircraft, helping gather essential intelligence in support of NATO-led operations to protect civilians on the ground below. Among the Royal Air Force ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) squadrons enforcing the UN mandate in the north African country is 5 (Army [...]
Israel army admits using dogs against Palestinians
Israel’s army is using attack dogs to stop Palestinians trying to damage the West Bank separation barrier in order to illegally enter Israel through the gaps, the military admitted on Thursday. An army statement said that in the past few years, a stretch of the barrier in the southern West Bank had been purposely damaged [...]
Artillery tested for rapid deployment
Dust flew on White Sands Missile Range during a test of an improved missile launch system conducted April 27, 2011, at White Sands Space Harbor, N.M. Members of the Precision Fires Rocket and Missile System Project Office test fired an upgraded version of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS. The test focused on [...]
Army equipping Afghans, Iraqis on Mi-17s
The U.S. Army is acquiring and sustaining Russian-built Mi-17 helicopters for Iraqi and Afghan forces so they can further stand up their respective militaries and enable more U.S. forces to return home, service officials said. “We’re buying those systems because our (servicemembers) don’t get to come home until (Iraqi and Afghan militaries) take over the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Dempsey Outlines 9 Focus Areas for Army
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey brought his intent for the Army of 2020 to the Association of the U.S. Army Institute of Land Warfare breakfast, leading off with a video accompanied by a song played by a band called “Disturbed.” “I’m a little short of a month in my new job and [...]
Army Tranfers High Speed Vessels to Navy
The Department of the Navy signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) May 2 with the Department of the Army transferring all five of the Army’s Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSV) to the Navy. The intent of this MOA is to clarify relationships, identify the roles and responsibilities, and provide an implementation plan. In addition, this [...]
Diverse radio fleet, dedicated field support enhance Soldier communications
Afghanistan: They call it “Tiger University” – a set of classrooms in Kandahar where Soldiers can take a radio crash course before returning to their posts. In groups of no more than 16, they receive training on the AN/PRC-117G, a wireless multimedia radio allowing troops to exchange large chunks of tactical data, such as video [...]
