Given the demand from the IDF, the company was charged with keeping production up at normal or higher rates, despite the potential dangers of being so close to the border.
“Some of the implications are that we now have batteries or, hopefully we'll have batteries, that are not reliant on rare earth minerals. We don't have to rely on those coming from adversarial nations such as China," Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ’s Global Public Sector division, told Breaking Defense.
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
A Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) official at the IQPC International Armoured Vehicles conference in London today said that while they had “some sympathy for industry covering excessive supply chain challenges” caused by COVID-19 and cyber hacking, manufacturers only reacted after feeling an “impact.”
"All Baltic states are boosting military capabilities because of the mounting Russian threat," one expert said.
Poland has offered to train Ukrainians on its soil using its own Leopards, bypassing Berlin’s reluctance to allow allies to send the heavy tanks to Ukraine. But delivering 300 battle-ready Leopard 2s will not be simple.
European nations are poised to send Ukraine main battle tanks. But Western MBTs will require different training, tactics, and logistical support than the smaller Soviet-derived designs Ukrainian troops are used to.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
Despite small budgets, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are working to strengthen their ground forces to protect their borders with Russia.
The contract comes at a time when the military procurement of armored vehicles is increasing across the Middle East to address the growth in asymmetric warfare and insurgency across the globe.
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.
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.
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Russia has big ambitions for unmanned systems, said CNA scholar Sam Bendett, but it faces the same technical hurdles as the US — and shares the same concerns about human control.
Industry is excited about the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. Congress and the Biden Administration are a harder sell.
The threat of Russian drones, helicopters, and attack jets drove the first fielding to a unit in Germany, but the 8x8 Stryker variant may well find its way to the Pacific as well.
“We realize that we may be considered an underdog,” says the company, which has never built a vehicle before, “but that is not going to stop us” — and the Army has explicitly sought out small businesses with big ideas.