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The Army is overhauling nearly every aspect of its combat training centers with new technology and tools that seek to make the demands of a rotation there as close to actual combat as possible. In the 1980s, the Army rolled out its AirLand Battle doctrine and fielded major weapons systems still in use today such as the Apache and Black Hawk helicopters, M1 Abrams tank, Bradley fighting vehicle…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has for years experimented with high-altitude balloons and long-endurance, fixed-wing, solar-powered platforms capable of operating in the stratosphere. Now the service is pursuing prototyping efforts that could lead to programs of record, including one able to deploy launched effects. The Army has come a long way from experimenting in the desert of White Sands Missile…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army, focused on meeting ambitious climate-related goals, is going to fall short of some of its objectives, including failing to field an all-electric, non-tactical vehicle fleet in the near term. However, the service is making progress in other areas, including rapidly expanding the use of microgrids at installations. The service in February 2022 released a climate…