Amid shakeup, Army plans to replace Gray Eagle and Shadow drones
After the Army Transformation Initiative shook up drone plans, the service wants a replacement for older Gray Eagles in 2028 and the Shadow in 2026, according to a service official.
Army general says deep aviation cuts aren’t set in stone, might ‘walk something back’
“A lot of the reasons that we're making decisions are because of political change. That's the reality of our governmental system," said Maj. Gen. Clair Gill. "And so we might be moving down a path for a couple years, and things change. The world changes. Wars happen.”
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Hegseth orders ‘comprehensive transformation’ of US Army, merging offices and cutting weapons
"All of these parochial interests and all of these lobbyists that crawl around this building and crawl around Congress, they have succeeded for far too long, and so the first thing is, we are going to start to cut the things we don't want or need," Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told reporters.
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New MQ-1C Gray Eagle prototype to be tested in Europe, General Atomics exec says
“We'll be demonstrating this capability overseas,” David Alexander told Breaking Defense, adding that the demos could take place in Europe as early as “next month.”
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US-made jets, air defense on Ukrainian fighter pilots’ wishlist, but not Gray Eagle
"I'd say that the ground-based air defense was the key in this war, and it's still the key [moving forward],” said a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter squadron commander who goes by the callsign “Moonfish.”
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Army Vice Chief Allyn Lists Service’s Robotic Priorities
AUVSI: Future warfare will “place a premium on all types of unmanned systems,” the Army’s vice chief of staff said Wednesday, and Gen. Daniel Allyn told the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International his service has five priority objectives for them. “First, these systems must increase our situational awareness, going where manned systems cannot, thereby […]
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Army’s Got Enough Drones; New Ones Should Be VTOL, Lundy says
ARLINGTON, Va.: The Army aviation chief, Maj. Gen. Michael Lundy, wants to spend the service’s shrunken aircraft acquisition budget — down about 40 percent over the past three years — on manned rather than unmanned aircraft. After all, this is the Army. “We’ve got a lot of unmanned stuff out there,” Lundy told an Association […]
Backpack Drones, Smaller Weapons: Army Thinks Small On UAVs
AUSA: When it comes to drones, the Army is now thinking small. The next new drone the service will buy is a Rucksack Portable UAS, Col. Courtney Cote, project manager for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), told reporters at an Association of the United States Army update on Army UAS plans. Cote’s office already has a […]
OSRVT: Used In Combat But Can It Pass Testing
Graduation season is ending, but some people are still waiting for final exam results. Take for example the Army offices that manage the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle — that service’s version of the armed Predator drone – and Textron’s One System Remote Video Terminal, a laptop soldiers on the ground can use to see […]
War Or Peace, Drones Market Will Grow, Especially For Infantry
TYSON’S CORNER, VA: With the wars that spawned the drone revolution subsiding, if not entirely ending, the U.S. armed services are taking stock of what they’ve learned and sorting out what to do next to bolster or better the fleets of unmanned aircraft they’ve accumulated since 2001. One thing is clear: war or peace, the […]