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US Army’s heavy ground robot reaches full-rate production

November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s heavy common ground robot has reached full-rate production, less than a year after FLIR won the contract to deliver the system, FLIR’s vice president in charge of unmanned ground systems told Defense News in an interview this month. “We’ve progressed with the U.S. Army through all the milestones on the program and are now at full-rate production on the…
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SEALs, Green Berets Join Large Defense Drill in Sweden

November 16, 2020
Swedish Special Forces together with U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman and Special Reconnaissance Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) operators assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command perform UUV launch and recovery training utilizing a Combatant Craft Medium…
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Army Activates Two Israeli Iron Dome Missile Defense Batteries at Fort Bliss

November 14, 2020
The Iron Dome air-defense system fires to intercept a rocket over the city of Ashdod on July 8, 2014, in Ashdod, Israel. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images) The U.S. Army announced today that it has activated two air-defense batteries at Fort Bliss, Texas that will test the Israeli-designed Iron Dome system to see if it can be plugged into the service’s air and missile defense network. Designed by…
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Lawmakers want US Army to quicken purchase of Arctic-capable vehicles

November 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators want the Army to move more quickly to buy vehicles capable of operating in the Arctic, according to its version of the fiscal 2021 defense spending bill released Nov. 10. “The committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to pursue equipment and vehicles necessary for Arctic and cold weather environments,” bill language stated. The Senate…
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National Museum Dedicated to Army Debuts on Veterans Day

November 13, 2020
A marker commemorating the service of Sgt. William Carney, a former slave who served in the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment and became the first African American Medal of Honor recipient, is displayed outside the new National Museum of the United States Army on…
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Congress clashes with Army over purchasing cargo helicopters

November 13, 2020
WASHINGTON — For the second year in a row, Congress is poised to bolster the CH-47F Chinook Block II program as the Army holds steady on its decision to scale back and only buy the latest variant for special operators. Both the House and Senate appropriators are injecting cash into the Boeing-manufactured, F-model Chinook program in fiscal 2021 to buy them for the active force after the Army…
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