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Army Fields First Anti-Aircraft Strykers In Just 3 Years

The threat of Russian drones, helicopters, and attack jets drove the first fielding to a unit in Germany, but the 8×8 Stryker variant may well find its way to the Pacific as well.

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Army Network Upgrade Seeks Fast Data For JADC2

The upcoming upgrade to the Army’s tactical network, Capability Set ’23, will exploit the boom in commercial Low- and Medium-Earth Orbit satellites to boost communications for fast-moving Stryker units.

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‘No More Fruit’ In Army’s Budget Tree: McConville

The Army’s prioritized so ruthlessly that the top 11 percent of  programs will get 50 percent of the funding. The other 89 percent can’t take any more cuts without it killing them.

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Oshkosh Wins $942M Stryker Upgun Contract, Unseating GDLS

General Dynamics had urgently upgunned a Europe-based brigade, but Oshkosh will build the next three to six brigades’ worth, starting with a unit in the Pacific Northwest.

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Army’s Mid-Range Capability Builds On Navy Missiles To Speed Fielding

The Army is on track to deliver a first prototype MRC by 2023, said Marcia Holmes, deputy director at the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office.

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Strykers To Get New Counter-Drone Tech With General Dynamics, Epirus Partnership

The partnership will initially integrate onto Strykers, but as has an eye on future autonomous platforms.

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Rafael teams with GD, KMW to help sell Trophy system in Europe

The new joint venture will focus its business activity on the European market, including growing existing buys in Germany and the UK, a senior company official told Breaking Defense.

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Army’s $177.5B budget request will ‘maintain’ momentum on modernization, but...

The Army ‘did not need to look’ at its modernization accounts to fund its budget, but Strykers and Abrams see procurement cuts in the fiscal 2023 request.

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‘An eye on where the floors are’: Army cuts Abrams and Strykers to ‘balance’...

“There’s a supplier base, for example, underneath the primes that we have to also be aware of,” the Army’s acquisition chief said of balancing cuts to older platforms with modernization.

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Autonomy on a Stryker? ‘It’ll be challenging,’ general says

“We’re trying to figure out how much autonomy you need, what’s available, what’s really mature now,” Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean told Breaking Defense.

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The latest counter-UAS system targets drones with dual-defeat kinetics and EW

[Sponsored] M-LIDS sensors and effectors are currently employed on two M-ATVs; Leonardo DRS leads an integration effort to consolidate the capability onto one Stryker.

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Next $500M Ukraine package to include Bradleys, Strykers and Patriot munitions

A senior official noted that this package will not include the longer-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for the HIMARS, a point of contention among observers.

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Not just 155mm: Army says it needs supplemental funds to shore up combat...

The service has sent hundreds of ground combat vehicles to Ukraine since February 2022, and Maj. Gen. Glenn Dean warned that “sustainment challenges” abound without additional dollars.

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Preliminary findings indicate Army still without viable APS solution for...

While the service is still hunting for hard-kill APS solutions for the fleet, it is also looking more broadly at different formation protection options.

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Armored vehicles and Patriots sent to Ukraine without solid sustainment plan,...

“We’re certainly aware that we could be doing more, but we’ve been saying from the beginning that we need to make sure that the Ukrainians have every tool available to them to maintain these systems,”...

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