Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

The latest news and analysis on land warfare, from Breaking Defense. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

GM Defense Delivers 1st Air-Droppable Trucks GM Defense made delivery of its Infantry Squad Vehicle in just 120 days from contract award. Next up: intensive Army testing, with two trucks set aside for parachuting out of airplanes. The 82nd Airborne gets the first ISVs next year.

Lynx Strikes Back: How Rheinmetall Could Win Army OMFV (ANALYSIS) The Army's new priorities — emphasizing heavy armor and robotics — and Rheinmetall's successes overseas combine to give the KF41 Lynx a fighting chance to be the new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.

DARPA's Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile With ground tests this year and a full-up flight test in 2023, OpFires hopes to become the Army's long-term solution for its Mid-Range Capability missile.

Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021 In this fall's Project Convergence exercises, it took a heroic effort just to get the network to work at all. Next year, the Army wants the network to function in the face of electronic attack.

Air Force Chief Seeks Navy Chief's Cooperation On JADC2 "[T]here is a difference in how aggressively the Navy is pursuing JADC2 compared to the Army and Air Force," Bryan Clark, Navy expert at the Hudson Institute, says.

LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In '21 Weapons from hypersonics to howitzers have key deadlines to meet next year to keep to the Army's ambitious timeline, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood and Brig. Gen. John Rafferty tell Breaking Defense.

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